HOWLEY Residents Association has said commuters looking for high-rise homes are being targeted ahead of local people.
The association is fighting plans for four riverside developments in the area that it says will create an entirely new community'.
The latest objection is to a scheme for a 32-metre high block of apartments planned by Watkin Jones.
The association said: "While Warrington has a surplus of new dwellings, it suffers from a shortage of affordable housing for low- income households.
"Yet developers, with tall blocks of expensive flats, continue to target commuters who work in Manchester and Liverpool.
"A successful towerblock, including social housing, is an architectural holy grail that has evaded leading architects in major cities the world over.
"They scar areas like ours because they are unsuitable for families and nobody is willing to pay the high long-term maintenance costs that arise. With this plan we will see irrevocable damage to our community. Local residents have common sense they don't want high-rise!"
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