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Wharf Street Retirement Homes and Apartments - 2001 is set to herald the start of new construction work in Port Sunlight. The demolition of the Cabot Engineering offices in early January will give way to 10 2 bedroom retirement apartments owned by the Village Trust.

The remaining planning permission for the go-ahead of a 60-bed nursing home and 38 close-care apartments in the vicinity of Wharf Street/The Ginnell is currently being sought by Glenavon Investments. The Wirral Borough Council is considering the removal of a condition when permission was previously granted in October 1998. There was a stipulation that residential garages were to be built before residential accommodation was built and occupied.

Both of the new developments have been designed by Paddock Johnson Associates, based in the Village,who designed the Bovis Retirement Homes in Pool Bank, completed in 1999 and who have also drafted an extensive seven-stage refurbishment plan for the Gladstone Theatre.

Article August 2000