Legacie lines up 160,000 sq ft Trafford office for resi conversion
Oakland House on Talbot Road is the subject of proposals from the Liverpool-based developer for conversion into 304 apartments.
A company called Legacie North West, headed up by Legacie founder and chief executive John Morley, has applied for permission to make external changes to Oakland House, a 160,000 sq ft office building in Trafford and turn vacant office space into apartments.
Savills is advising on planning and Falconer Chester Hall is the architect attached to the project.
To learn more, search for reference number 117457/PMA/25 on Trafford Council’s planning portal.
The project would be Legacie’s third large residential project in Greater Manchester and first in Trafford. So far, the developer has only been active in Salford having recently completed Embankment Exchange in the Greengate district, another 300-flat project.
Merchants Wharf, a 196-apartment project in Ordsall completed last year while Legacie acquired the site of Yu Group Developments’ stalled 140-home West One project on Eccles New Road.
The Oakland House project add another office-to-resi scheme in an area that has become a hotspot for that type of development.
Other office-to-res conversions in the area include Beech’s Warwick House, CERT’s Atherton House, and Blueoak’s Alexander House.
The building last traded in 2016 for £10m when Regional REIT acquired it as part of a portfolio deal with La Salle Asset Management. Colliers advised Regional REIT on the sale of the building to Legacie.
Funny.. I thought business after business was being sucked up by Manchester and it’s office space was thriving.. but all these offices are being converted to living quarters.. surely new business would be looking for cheap office space especially so conveniently located…. or is it Manchester is the shell game and the hand is faster than the eye….
By Anonymous
Anonymous 5:37 this is not Manchester! This is Trafford. The building is a far cry from what modern office occupier’s demand.
By Anonymous
And there goes the last commercial office around trafford town hall. I did wonder how this survived, it does have a fair few people going in and out still
By Eddy
October 16, 2025 at 12:27 pm
By Anonymous… One minute it’s all Manchester.. next it’s Trafford not Manchester .. not the same .. well.. there’s plenty of offices in Manchester central going the same way and elsewhere.. and modern businesses are quite happy to fit into he space … They can afford.
By Anonymous
Anonymous 17/10 2:44 – This isn’t happening in Manchester as the City Council has an Article 4 Direction that prevents it
By Anonymous
Trafford and Salford are Manchester when we want them to be, not when the news is bad though.
By Anonymous
Oakland house is a far better design than anything that has been built in the last 20 years in Manchester and Salford. A slender elegant building with no checkerboard cladding. Great design.
By John