Developer tries again with Blackley apartments plan
Having seen proposals for 42 flats off Old Market Street rejected earlier this year, Javed Aslam, Arshad Mahmood, and Tahir Mahmood have submitted plans for an improved scheme with fewer apartments.
The trio is requesting permission to build 35 apartments next to Blackley Conservative Club.
The refreshed plans have been lodged four months after Manchester City Council rejected the earlier proposal due to concerns around resident safety, a loss of privacy for those living nearby, and a lack of green space.
The developer claims to have addressed these concerns with the updated plans, which now feature one apartment block instead of two, by upping the number of car parking spaces, creating a residents-only access route, additional landscaping, and reconfiguring the project to limit overlooking of a neighbouring site.
A viability appraisal submitted with the application states the project would have a gross development value of £5.7m and would cost £5.4m to build.
To learn more, search for reference number 143308/OO/2025 on Manchester City Council’s planning portal.
Over the last two decades various proposals to redevelop the site have been submitted and approved.
The most recent of these dates back to 2013 when a Mr S Munshi secured consent for nine four-bedroom houses.
Are the developers misunderstood philanthropists, or is there some other reason why they seem so keen to push on with a scheme of such marginal profitability according to their own sums? It’s also still very poor quality both in design and layout.
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