Manchester set to refuse revised £58m Shudehill homes
Concerns that converting a grade two-listed building may damage the area’s heritage could prove the downfall for Interland Holdings’ project.
The city council is recommended to refuse plans to transform the 19th-century building at 29 Shudehill to deliver 175 city centre apartments. Manchester’s planning and highways committee will review the proposals next Thursday.
The site currently contains the grade two-listed 29 Shudehill and the Rosenfield Building, a former department store located at 18-20 Dantzic Street.
Plans drawn up by Buttress Architects would see the complete demolition of the vacant Rosenfield Building and partial demolition of 29 Shudehill. The building’s front wing and most of its centre would be kept and repaired.
According to the officer’s report, the partial demolition of 29 Shudehill would “cause harm to and fail to preserve the building and the features of special architectural or historic interest which it possesses”.
The proposed transformation of the site has a gross development value of £57.6m. The scheme would deliver 58 one-bed, 106 two-bed, and 11 three-bed apartments across three blocks, reaching up to 19 storeys in height.
Residents would also have access to 13,000 sq ft of flexible ground floor retail space.
Due to the project’s city centre location, there would be no car parking spaces provided, however 90 cycle spaces would be available.
The revised plans were submitted last July, four years after the original proposals were lodged for the site. Distinct markings have been added to break up the building’s solidarity and reduce its visual impact.
Avison Young is advising Interland Holdings on the plans. Civic Engineers is structural engineer for the scheme and Stephen Levrant is heritage consultant.
To find out more about the plans, search for application number 121195/FO/2018 on Manchester City Council’s planning portal.
