Town Deal funding is planned to be used for a new multi-million pound digital enterprise hub in Warrington.

The council’s cabinet is set to approve the submission of the business case to Government for the facility, as part of Warrington’s Town Deal programme, next Monday.

It would be located at St James’s Business Centre, off Wilderspool Causeway.

The council submitted the town investment plan containing a seven transformational projects totalling £26.56 million.

Following this, the authority was informed that Warrington has been given a Town Deal worth up to £22.1 million from the Government’s Towns Fund.

The shortfall in funding, from the ask of £26.56 million, resulted in each of the seven projects having to reduce respective budgets on a proportional basis. This resulted in the original £3.5 million funding earmarked for the digital enterprise hub being reduced by £800,000 to £2.7 million.