SimpsonHaugh reveals 34-storey Clippers Quay tower
Developer Forshaw Land and Property and planner Lichfields have submitted an application for a £45m residential-led tower at the southern edge of Salford Quays, designed by architect SimpsonHaugh.
The tower includes 216 apartments, a ground floor commercial unit, a residents’ gym, roof terrace, and car parking.
The apartment mix will be split between 54 one-beds, 152 two-beds, and 10 three-beds.
Subject to planning approval, the scheme will take around two years to build, although a main contractor is yet to be appointed. An existing serviced office on the 12-acre site will be demolished to make way for the tower.
WSP is acting as building services consultant and structural engineer for the project.
Nathan Matta, planning director at Lichfields, said: “The scale and density of the current buildings in this part of the Salford Quays is changing, with low level buildings being replaced by a series of taller buildings.
“The development is of a high quality design which will result in an outstanding landmark development in this important part of the city. The site is located in a highly sustainable urban area and the development would have a positive impact on the waterside and a number of key viewpoints.”
The project is the latest proposal by Forshaw for the Ordsall and Clippers Quay area to be submitted to planners.
Plans were approved last year for a £40m development of 232 apartments on Worrall Street, facing the River Irwell. It includes three blocks of between seven and nine storeys in height, and there are plans to start work on the project early this year.
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Amazing stuff. Strike me down now.
34 stories is far too large for this location, I feel very sorry for the people in the estates nearby who will be having their privacy infringed upon.
That type of structure would be better built on a city with a waterfront not a sewer canal .
Will never get built. Too expensive to build compared with values in that area. Simpson Haugh probably need to hire a valuation/viability surveyor to ensure what they’re designing is actually viable.
I wish it was taller, the Quays is the perfect place to go tall.
NOT high enough..NIMBYs should CHILL…!
wow thats an imaginative and responsive approach! Well done Simpson on another glass tower… yawn… tedious and unimaginative..
Manhattan Island this isnt… stop it with the boring glass towers Pleeeease!?
Simpsons with another out of the box glass tower. They must be making an absolute fortune from all of these boring identikit towers.
More Buildings? What they building more buildings for? I’ve never been to a place with more buildings. Why don’t architects and developers not stop building?
Not a fan.
I don’t understand all this critiscism of Simpsons. Everyone is using them so they must be the greatest Manc architects since Alfred Waterhouse. All the others should pack up and leave it to these cutting edge designers. Manchester’s Zaha Hadid or Frank Lloyd Wright
I sort of agree with DOT. I think it would be better to build it there though than a place with a waterfront in front of a sewer
Well, that’s a whole lot of average packaged into 34 storeys!
Classic Simpson…
Hardly a sewer. Plenty of fish in there, seagulls, ducks and swans bobbing about, and you can swim in it which is more than you can say for the Thames. And people wonder where Mancs get their reputation for moaning from.
Glass again?
this is horrid! generic boring architecture