Apartments pitched for prominent Chester city centre site

Situated next to Storyhouse and opposite Chester Market, Kirkton House and its surrounding Hunter Street properties have been targeted for demolition applications for more than two decades. The latest attempt reimagines the site as 19 apartments.

Pure Residential and Commercial has submitted plans to raze Kirkton House, 4a, and 4b Hunter Street in Chester. In their place, the developer would build a five-storey apartment block with 19 flats.

Of those apartments, four would have just one bedroom, 12 would have two, and three would have three bedrooms. All of these would be market housing, with an off-site affordable housing contribution to be made.

The apartment block would front Hunter Street. In the north-west corner of the site would then sit a detached, four-bed and three-storey house with its own private driveway.

Parking for the residents of the apartment block would be on site, with 11 bays proposed. There would also be 21 spaces for cycles to be stored.

Cassidy + Ashton has both drawn up the plans and led the application submission for the scheme. The project team also includes Peninsular Acoustics, Aeon Archaeology, Ascerta, SCP, Miller Goodall, Robert Fry Associates, and Henderson Heritage.

To find out more about the project, search reference 26/01658/FUL on Cheshire West and Chester Council’s planning portal.