The owners of the former B&M store in Nantwich town centre have confirmed today they are in talks with interested parties over its sale.
Apavi Group currently have planning approval to convert the building on Swine Market into 20 ground and first floor apartments.
The front part of the ground floor is now the new Hope House Hospice shop, which Apavi confirmed will be unaffected by any sale.
The company is seeking potential buyers for the rear ground floor and the upper floor, they said today.
It’s on the market for £695,000, and the sale is being handled by London-based Blue Alpine.
A company spokesperson told Nantwich News today: “By the time we received planning approval, our build team had moved on to another project.
“So in the meantime we have put it on the market to see if there is any interest.
“We are talking to some potential buyers, some thinking about returning it to commercial, some thinking to go ahead with the plans we have for apartments.
“We are open to offers from any interested local parties.”
Apavi’s initial planning application had been refused by Cheshire East planners in summer 2025, but they re-submitted in October and it was approved in November.
The current proposal is for nine one-bedroom, one-person flats; seven one-bed, two-person flats, and four two-bed, three-person flats.
It involves the change of use of part of the ground floor and the full first floor of the building and includes three car parking spaces and 20 for cycles.
Hope House Children’s Hospice shop moved into the retail part of the store in December, vacating their old High Street premises on the corner.
The Apavi spokesperson also dismissed rumours that large brands like Primark and Dorothy Perkins were interested in the site.
“That was complete speculation and not the case,” they added.
They said the company had already spent around £200,000 on the building to remove asbestos and renovate the interior.
If this gets passed god help Nantwich, it will then turn into Bedsit/HMO land like Crewe and probably go down hill as quick.
Lock up your daughters!
Cosy One-Bedroom/Two-Bedroom Flats, Rent paid by the Benefits System, will be ideal accommodation as expected by Our Visitors from across the Channel?
What a lucrative investment opportunity for the Entrepreneurial Sharks so ably assisted by the Human Rights Lawyers?…
Roll On REFORM!!!!🙏
Let’s hope the narrow minded people in CEC accept that charity shops, vale stores, bettering shops, gold exchange shops , Turkish barbers , nail bars are not the future but are an indicator of a time in decline
the 3 car spaces will be for disabled and visitor, what needs to happen is better provision for cycle lanes in the town, its not good enough stating the 2022 changes to the highway code actually work, I would never ride on the roads again, too many fast moving entitled drivers ramming you off the road, along with every pot hole is close to the kerb anyway. as for the nonsense there is no parking on site, well plenty of parking close by and possibly someone renting a small apartment would not be able to afford a car, given a bus station and railway are close by. No reason to suggest these apartments will be for anyone other than locals, as the criteria to rent is now very high, landlords have just got very picky given government interference in the sector