{"id":8342,"date":"2025-10-09T06:46:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=8342"},"modified":"2025-10-09T06:46:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:46:57","slug":"green-light-for-st-helens-life-sciences-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/green-light-for-st-helens-life-sciences-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Green light for St Helens life sciences scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Planning permission has been secured for a life sciences scheme at the St Helens Manufacturing and Innovation Campus.<\/p>\n

St Helens Borough Council has given the go-ahead yo Project Halo – a landmark life sciences and advanced manufacturing development that will deliver 85,000 sq. ft of high spec workspace across four cutting edge \u2018Tech Box\u2019 units.<\/p>\n

The units will offer adaptable layouts to accommodate bespoke office, laboratory, and light production requirements.<\/p>\n

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Construction is anticipated to start in Spring 2026.<\/p>\n

Led by St Helens Borough Council and delivered by Network Space, the scheme is set across a five-acre brownfield site off Roby Way, adjacent to the Glass Futures Centre of Excellence and SINA Medical.<\/p>\n

The site has already undergone extensive enabling works, including ground remediation, re-profiling, and construction of a new estate road and roundabout arm, ensuring excellent connectivity and \u201cdevelopment-ready\u201d status<\/p>\n

Network Space was appointed by St Helens Borough Council as development manager for the site in 2023 following the council\u2019s acquisition of the land, supported by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.<\/p>\n

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he company had previously collaborated with the council to deliver the award-winning \u00a354 million Glass Futures project which opened in the same year.<\/p>\n

Joe Burnett, Development Director at Network Space, said: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to have secured planning for Project Halo to deliver high-quality, flexible workspace that addresses the productivity gap in the manufacturing and science sectors.<\/p>\n

“Its proximity to Glass Futures and other innovation-led sectors will allow businesses to tap into an already-established system for collaboration, knowledge-sharing and sustainable growth.<\/p>\n

St Helens Borough Council is delivering one of the most ambitious regeneration strategies in the North West, strengthening the town\u2019s reputation for innovation whilst creating high quality employment and supply chain opportunities for the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

Support for the Halo Project has been provided by Architects AEW, GWB Consultants, Stantec, Kaizen Consulting Engineers and Spawforths.\u00a0 St Helens Council was supported by IMT Consulting.<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/ktCN7Qs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Planning permission has been secured for a life sciences scheme at the St Helens Manufacturing and Innovation Campus. St Helens Borough Council has given the go-ahead yo Project Halo – a landmark life sciences and advanced manufacturing development that will deliver 85,000 sq. ft of high spec workspace across four cutting edge \u2018Tech Box\u2019 units. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-8342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8343,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions\/8343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}