Sisk wins Stockport £60m Weir Mill restoration

Developer Funds&Centric, with Stockport Mayoral Enhancement Corporation, ideas to breathe new life into the derelict town centre site with a 253 flats scheme, with 87 inside of the current mill properties and 167 in the two new buildings.

There will be 24,000 sq ft of commercial area together with the West Get rid of, which will come to be a new indoor room with exposed brick, vaulted arches and sky lights.

The new £60m Weir Mill is a cornerstone project of the £1bn town centre transformation.

Alan Rodger, Managing Director, at Sisk’s Uk North division, claimed that the construct is established to acquire all-around two a long time.

Original strip out and restricted demolition is at the moment using put on web site, with the newly-appointed principal contractor to consider over in June.

The internet site, situated close to Stockport 8 – a new 8 acre internet site set to produce up 1,200 new homes – is the upcoming main redevelopment for Stockport Town Centre West.

Adam Higgins, co-founder of Capital&Centric said: “Weir Mill has been a continual existence in Stockport, with pieces of the buildings relationship again to the 1700s.

“There’s no doubt, it’s a turbulent time at the second, but we’re ploughing on. It is innovative neighbourhoods like this that will propel the region’s recovery. We’re itching to get on website in the coming weeks.”