Eastern Estates plots 23-storey Preston tower
Earlier proposals for a sloping apartment block on Church Row that were approved during the pandemic have been reworked.
Eastern Estates is seeking consent for a 23-storey tower with 120 apartments where derelict warehouses currently stand five years after proposals for a 21-storey scheme with 80 flats were approved.
The original proposal had a sloped design but that has been reworked in favour of a stepped design.
The updated version of the plans features 94 one-bed apartments and 26 two-bed flats. Viability constraints mean the scheme would not deliver any on-site affordable housing.
The tower would sit alongside the neighbouring 16-storey Guild Tower, which is the subject of plans for an office-to-resi conversion by Yates Capital.
Cassidy + Ashton is advising on planning and 1618 Architects is advising on design.
To learn more, search for reference number 06/2025/0992 on Preston City Council’s planning portal.
More “homes” for folk without children. Hmm!
By Anonymous
Depressing architecture.
By Heritage Action
Anonymous 11.56 – Flats are great – I’d much prefer to live in a flat in the city centre than a house on some dull, tree-less and souless suburban estate in the middle of nowhere.
By Anonymous
Will Mustaq Bhailok’s (Eastern Estates) actually build this one? His development off Garden Street went nowhere, apart from knocking down the Sports Hall. Both would be unspectacular buildings with no connection to the surrounding architecture.
By Black Rose
I think developing run down areas of the city centre is preferable to having to look at scruffy run down boarded up buildings in this area of Preston, but more affordable family houses are required, and not on the outskirts of Preston.
By GAK
Not an inspiring design, but a huge improvement on the derelict warehouse there at the moment.
Good to see
By Katie