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Butts Green
Description
- Project type: apartments and houses
- Full Address: Butts Green, Kingswood, Warrington, Cheshire
- Postcode: WA5 7XU
- Location type: suburban
- Number of dwellings: 149 leasehold units - 75 apartments (150 years) and 74 houses (999 years); no affordable housing
- Bed spaces: c.406
- Site area / density: 3.7 ha; 40 units per hectare
- Parking ratio: 2:1 (including garage spaces)
- Typical unit area: smallest 43.2 sq.m (one bed flat); largest 139 sq.m (four bed detached)
- Cost per unit: construction cost £750 sq.m; sale price £2,150 sq.m. Sale price from £97,950 (one bed ‘flyover’ apartment) to £350,000 (four bed grand semi or detached)
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