Manchester site with PBSA potential hits market for £6m
St Peter’s House is situated in the heart of the University of Manchester campus and offers 21,000 sq ft of office space.
However, it is the nearly one-acre site’s future potential that makes it of interest to the development community. Feasibility studies by Stride Treglown Architects show that it has the potential for an eight-storey student accommodation block with between 218 and 233 beds.
The site would also be suitable for a life sciences office complex, according to agent JLL.
How a future 233-bed purpose-built student accommodation block could look on the site. Credit: via JLL
Currently, the former office and religious site has three floors and 18 car parking spaces. The largest of the three floors is the first, which has 10,800 sq ft of space.
St Peter’s House can be accessed by foot from Oxford Road or by car from Clifford Street.
The successful buyer will acquire three titles for the space, two freehold, and one long leasehold at a peppercorn rent. The titles belong to the official custodian for charities for the trustees of St Peter’s House Church and Chaplaincy of Precinct Centre, according to HM Land Registry.
A search for St Peter’s House Chaplaincy shows that this group includes the Church of England’s Manchester diocese, the United Reform Church North Western Synod, the North Western Baptist Association, and Manchester Methodists.
The group is accepting officers of £6m and above for St Peter’s House.
Someone please tell me they aren’t building on yet more public realm
By Anonymous
12:33 pm By Anonymous, come on, there is a massive brand new park directly over the road from this tatty square!
I am a massive advocate for greenspace, particularly in the city centre, but people burn out the argument for it by making daft complaints like this.
By Anonymous
Massive brand new park? Are you talking about the University Green?! Are we seriously calling this a massive park?
As for burning out the argument for more green space, it’s the biggest downfall of the city. A city which is building more for the few. So no, we won’t stop advocating for more green space.
By BURN BABY BURN
Fair, maybe the use of the word park was wrong. In the context of this tiddly grey square University Green is a park, but I agree, not necessarily a park in the sense of Whitworth, Platt Fields etc. It is definitely a new very large green space though. In an area which is very well served for greenspace and public realm.
Over using an argument in the wrong place isn’t a good thing. It gives people reason to just ignore you.
By Anonymous
Depends on your definition of overuse. The same approach can also be applied to the various amounts of failed world class boulevard and pedestrianised spaces that MCC and TfGM shove down our throats. When we stop getting broken promises, we’ll stop using the same old argument.
By Same side but different approaches
There is a wildflower mini-meadow at the back which is absolute oasis in the middle of all the concrete and brick. Building on this would have a huge negative impact on the local wild environment. 😥
By Susan