Blackpool ramps up next Talbot Gateway office project
Sign-off has been given for officers to finalise terms with Muse to deliver 53,000 sq ft of offices at the former Apollo site, and to enter into a lease agreement with the proposed public sector occupier.
Submitted in May last year and approved in September, this would be a second civil service hub for Talbot Gateway, following the £100m, 215,000 sq ft DWP facility advanced at King Street.
Make Architects and Avison Young are designer and planner on both projects. The Talbot Road office building will be six storeys.
Re-form is advising on landscape and Arup is the structural engineer. Cundall, AECOM, Hannan Associates, and WSP also feature on the project team.
Full project details can be seen on Blackpool’s planning portal with the reference 24/0215.
In a decisions notice published on Blackpool Council’s website, the local authority’s head of legal services is given permission “to enter into and exchange on the agreement for lease and subsequently grant the lease with the third party interested in leasing the proposed land on the former Apollo site off Talbot Road”.
A further decision is “to approve the terms of the fourth supplemental deed agreement with Muse Places for delivery of the office accommodation” at the site, as part of the Talbot Gateway Project (Central Business District) phase five.
Also approved is the progressing of the terms of the forward funding agreement to develop the office building and associated infrastructure, in concert with both Muse and the “interested party”.
So many Civil Service buildings being constructed for them to WFH!
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