Omega is a property development site in

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comprising 226 hectares straddling the M62 motorway. The site comprises a large part of the former RAF/USAF Burtonwood airbase. A new junction on the M62 (junction 8) was built in anticipation of the development. The whole site was to provide 650,000 sq m of offices, manufacturing and distribution space along with ancillary leisure/retail facilities, hotel and conference facilities. Around 24,000 jobs were hoped to be created over the lifetime of the scheme to make one of Europe's largest

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s. A large part of the southern part of the site was eventually allocated to new housing.

Phasing

Planning conditions were relaxed in 2011 during the

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to allow phased development. In July 2012 it was announced that the long-awaited £1bn development of Warrington’s Omega business park was to begin with a 200,000 sq ft warehouse and a £7 million contract for new roads at Omega North, opening up the site for further development. By 2015 Omega North was complete with distribution warehouses for

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, and

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. Omega South had

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, and the largest

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development outside the USA with an

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distribution warehouse, and plans for retail, leisure, and phased housing developments.

Transport

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on the Liverpool-Warrington-Manchester line was completed in November 2019 and opened on 15 December 2019. There is a bus link from Warrington West to the Omega site.

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