Parkside Rail Frieght Terminal

Late last week Prologis who are the company behind the plans to develop a rail freight interchange terminal at Parkside near Newton -le-Willows have decided to no longer proceed with the plans due to the current economic climate. They recognise that the site remains an ideal place for a rail freight terminal but at the moment the high costs of altering key rail and road infrastructure arround the site make the development prohibitive at this time. There have been different arguments for several years about the benefits and equally the damage such a project could have brought to St Helens between residents living near the site and local politicians of different parties but for the time being the project is now on hold until circumstances change.