Forshaw’s Manchester tower in for partial redesign
With planning permission and funding in place, the developer is tweaking plans for its Cornbrook apartment and aparthotel scheme, adding a second staircase to the hotel element.
This article has been amended to reflect the fact that the second staircase is required in the hotel. The residential element of the scheme was designed with two cores from the outset.
Forshaw Land & Property Group was granted planning permission for a 24-storey development in Manchester last year. The approved scheme comprises 237 apartments and an 88-key aparthotel.
Earlier this year, the developer secured a £62.4m loan to construct the project, its largest to date.
However, the make-up of the development – including height and number of units – could now change as the developer looks to redesign the hotel element of the project.
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Forshaw has sought to amend the description of the project with Manchester’s planners. Documents lodged with Manchester City Council by consultant Lichfields state that “it has become apparent” that “an additional fire-fighting staircase” is required in the hotel order for the scheme to comply with building safety legislation.
Fusion’s South Deansgate student scheme and Clarion’s Great Ducie Street residential development are among others that were redesigned in anticipation of changing legislation.
The extent of the changes to the project is not yet known and will be the subject of a separate planning application.
Lyndon Forshaw, founder of Forshaw Land and Property, said: “Due to an error by the HSE at Gateway 1 stage, which only became apparent at Gateway 2, we are now formalising the addition of two additional stair cores to the service the four hotel floors only.
“This has resulted in some amends to the layouts of the hotel floors and as part of that we are relocating some amenity to ground floor. None of these amends affect the construction, funding and delivery program and we look forward to commencing enabling works package the next four weeks”.
