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NORTHGATE Development – plans to redevelop an area off Northgate Street, including the current library, market, bus station, former Gateway Theatre, council offices and derelict buildings nearby.
Replace with 60 shops, new market, library, performing arts centre and department store.
Its future should be announced this autumn.
Glass Slug – new council offices, dubbed the Glass Slug, were planned on Gorse Stacks as part of the Northgate deal to relocate the city council’s workers. Plans were scrapped by a new Tory administration last September after an election promise in June.
More conventional, and cheaper, council offices are likely to be built at either Tower Wharf or Black Diamond Street using cash from a re-negotiated Northgate deal, that could be used after council reorganisation for the West Cheshire headquarters.
