Who is the scheme supported by?
The strategic significance that this development has in local and regional policy cannot be over emphasised. 3MG is a common thread that runs through a range of local and regional policies. Consequently the impact that this development can and will have on the local and regional economy is significant and the failure to realise the ambitions set out in the various policies will have a negative impact on the local and the wider regional economy.

Realising the economic and regenerative potential of rail related commerce, and the significance of the West Coast Main Line’s route through the Borough, Halton BC established the principle of 3MG in 1999 and launched the Masterplan for the development in November 2004. The potency of the Council’s aspirations were endorsed by the Mersey Freight Study in 2000.

3MG is one of the Northwest Development Agency’s 25 Strategic Regional sites designated by the NWDA as being critical to the effective implementation of the Regional Economic Strategy (RES). The development of a rail freight park is identified in the RES as being fundamental to the economic development of the Northwest.

The scheme was recently allocated £2 million of funding from the European Regional Development Fund.