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Ambitious plans in for Chester’s Northgate

Ambitious plans are in to redevelop the Northgate area of Chester city centre, creating approximately 500,000 sq ft of new retail, restaurant and leisure facilities and generating more than 1,000 jobs.

A planning application for the Chester Northgate Scheme (pictured) has been submitted on behalf of Cheshire West and Chester Council. It is envisaged that the project would be delivered over two construction phases.

Phase one which is forecast to start in autumn 2017 would involve the development of two restaurants within the shell of the current library building, a new market hall replacing the current Chester Market, a six-screen cinema, and a 167-bedroom four- star hotel and conference centre as a replacement for the Crowne Plaza Hotel which together with the Forum and several other buildings onsite would be demolished in 2019.

Work would then begin on the second phase of construction to create the main retail offer, department store and residential areas. Read More