Arora family pulls trigger on Strangeways apartments plan
Having owned the site on the corner of Dutton Street and Robert Street in Manchester since 2008, the billionaire family behind B&M Bargains has decided the time is right to progress its redevelopment into a residential scheme comprising 189 flats.
The 30-year-old warehouse located on the Strangeways site, which is currently occupied by Pure Padel, would be demolished to make way for a building that steps in height from 10 to 20 storeys, designed by Tim Groom Architects. Rani Developments is the Arora controlled vehicle behind the plans.
A consultation on the plans, which feature 64 one-bed flats, 121 with two bedrooms, and four two-bed townhouses, is now live.
Branded as Dutton Point, the development falls within the Great Ducie Street strategic regeneration zone and is located close to Salboy’s Waterhouse Gardens and Latimer’s Brewery Gardens, which combined will provide more than 1,000 homes.
The site is also on the edge of the area governed by the Strangeways SRF, which is earmarked for 7,000 homes over the coming years.
Residential development is also gathering pace in the area off Cheetham Hill Road with ZephyrX, Linear, and Benjamin Property Group bringing forward projects taller than 20 storeys.
Land Studio is leading on landscape design and Zerum is the planning consultant.
Lovely, more of this across the Strangeways district please.
By Bob
Detailing is fabulous, especially for such an outskirts [for now] proposal. The standard we should be expecting for the city. brilliant!
By shh
Looks great and fantastic to see this part of the city centre rapidly developing and expanding outwards – I just hope there’s some consideration as to the street level of all these 20 storey buildings going up in close proximity, there’s a real potential to create wider, open tree-lined areas that are enjoyable on a human scale – but otherwise there’s a risk of expansive dark corridors which are not particular pleasant (or dare say safe) to walk around.
By Anonymous
That is just gorgeous.
By Anonymous
Are those some balconies I see? That will be good for those units lucky enough to benefit from them.
Not really sure on the merits of small inset balconies though – you won’t get much in the way of light but it’s better than nothing I suppose.
By Balcony watch
Any commercial units planned int his area or is the planning dept creating yet another dead zone like New Cross?
By Anonymous
Safe to assume the padel is way more valuable than a high rise development plot in the current market. It’s just too few units to make it economically viable.
By Anonymous
Beautiful! Finally some character in a high rise. More of this please!
By Anonymous
C’mon Tim!! 😉
By MrP
Are all the people saying how beautiful this is looking at the same CGI? Or is it the project team hyping their own project?
By Anonymous
Agree with anonymous wondering if the comments in praise of the aesthetics are somehow linked to the project. This just looks like more “join the rectangles” architecture slop.
By Northern Lad
It’s a nice design. There should be more of this in the city centre to replace the hiddeous buildings built in the 90s and 2000.
By John