Shropshire Star

Housing developer buys old Travis Perkins site in Shrewsbury

The site of a former builder's merchants in Shrewsbury has been snapped up by a housing developer, having been on the market for £750,000.

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The site in Wood Street in Shrewsbury had previously been home to Travis Perkins, until the company relocated to a new facility it built on Vanguard Way on the Battlefield Enterprise Park.

Now an unnamed residential developer has acquired the six-and-a-half acre property, which lies in the middle of a predominantly residential area in Greenfields.

The site also has 40,000 sq ft of buildings which had been used by the builder's merchants, and which had been on the market jointly with commercial agents Towler Shaw Roberts and Halls Commercial.

While it has an established commercial use the site offers scope for residential development, and agents for the site said they had received a lot of interest in the site.

TSR's Amie Lingwood, who completed the sale, said: "It's an important site for Shrewsbury and there's some exciting plans for it.

"There are few sites of this nature available in Shrewsbury, so we expected a good level of interest and we are very pleased to have now completed a significant sale in the town.

"It certainly stimulated a lot of interest to the point where we had to go to best and final offers.

"It's been sold it to a residential development company, who are now looking at different options for the site."

The site would appear to be a prime brownfield site for development, and a planning application is now likely to be prepared for the site.

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