St Helens Town Centre
A regenerative development over 1.85 hectares bringing new homes, a mass timber office building, a 150-bed hotel, and a public market hall to the centre of St Helens.
Key features
A new mass timber office building
The new mass timber 5-storey office building features glulam beams and columns as well as CLT floor slabs.
New glulam timber market hall
The new 20,000ft² multi-bay roof, glulam timber market hall on a prominent corner of the site supports placemaking.
Engineered for re-use
The use of structural timber supports a circular economy, as its fairly straightforward to disassemble and re-use later in life.
Reducing embodied carbon in the foundations
The lightweight timber office structure reduces the number of piles needed in the foundations, with low-carbon GGBS concrete used for the piles.
Public realm and integrated drainage
New public realm space, incorporating trees, rain gardens and permeable paving. A mix of SuDS features serve different parts of the scheme with a consideration to ownership and long term maintenance requirements.
