Premcor pivots to hotel for Rochdale Road
The developer bought the site next to the Angel pub in Manchester in January and is working with Jon Matthews Architects to draw up fresh designs for a 229-bed hotel.
Another developer, Realty Estates, won consent in 2017 for a 15-storey, 100-apartment complex designed by Hodder + Partners, but work never started on site.
Realty subsequently sold the plot to Premcor for an undisclosed sum.
The new owner’s revised proposals moot an 11-storey hotel with a ground floor restaurant.
Premcor has launched a public consultation for the updated scheme with a planning submission expected in July, according to the company’s director Simon Hawkins.
Hawkins said Premcor had instructed contractor GMI Construction to draw up a construction management plan for the site.
The planner for the latest iteration of the hotel scheme is WSP. Gardiner & Theobald is providing project management, employer’s agent and quantity surveying services.
consulting on archaeology and LK Group has carried out environmental assessment of the site, which is currently used as a car park.
Premcor is headed up by directors Rob Lane and Hawkins, who both previously worked at Manchester-based developer Urban & Civic.
The original designs had Deloitte as planning consultant.
