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Former Horwich Loco Works

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Within a Conservation Area

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Cass Design Consultants Ltd

Studio 204 B , The Tea Factory , 82 Wood Street , LIVERPOOL , L1 4DQ , United Kingdom

Conservation Area regeneration project including the largest remaining group of Victorian locomotive manufacturing sheds in the UK. • Masterplan for 45 Ha of employment and residential development, landscape restoration and decontamination, including new access roads, landforms and waterbodies. • Site one of only two strategic employment locations within Bolton’s Core Strategy. • Site heavily contaminated and large areas of filled ground on sloping site. • Challenges included developing realistic proposals for re-use of massive Victorian loco sheds. • Subsequently appointed directly by English Heritage for feasibility and condition study of existing redundant buildings.