Refusal for BOI’s Bury New Road flats
Manchester City Council has rejected proposals for a 136-apartment development in the Strangeways area of the city due to concerns about its scale and a lack of parking provision.
In December, clothing retailer BOI Trading lodged an application to redevelop a 1.5-acre site off Bury New Road into a residential scheme.
The vision for the plot, which borders Fairy Lane and is vacant following the demolition of terraced housing in the 1990s, was to create a five-storey block comprising a mix of one- and two-bedroom properties, 28 of which would be designated as affordable.
An earlier application had sought permission for a six-storey block with 141 apartments, but that proposal was withdrawn last March.
THAA Architects designed the latest iteration of the scheme, taking over from RGP Architects.
However, BOI will have to rethink its plans after the city council refused to grant planning permission for the project.
A report by Manchester planning officers said the scheme would “constitute an inappropriate form of development, which result in an incongruous, over-dominant feature, out of scale and out of character with the surrounding context and streetscape”.
In addition, the city council said it was concerned about a lack of parking provision within the development, adding it was not satisfied with the evidence the developer had provided with regards to highways impact.
So the price of renting or owning a home in Manchester is skyrocketing, supply is too low to keep pace with population growth, and Manchester Council have just rejected a planning application for new homes because it’s out of scale with the surrounding industrial warehouses and chicken shops. Great.
By Anonymous
preposterous decision
By NJ
What a crazy decision. The area is an utter dump atm and needs schemes like this badly. The council should be ripping their hands off
By Bob
Low parking numbers is…..a good thing??? If you live in central Manc with it’s connectivity, why on earth would you need a car? Perhaps include a car club scheme on site??? This from the planning team that’s allowing Manchester to evolve into a particularly bland corner of Sao Paulo in terms of building heights. Bonkers…hope they appeal.
By Sceptic
Land to rear is elevated no no issue there, it’s opposite run down warehousing in a cruddy area of town, MCC should welcome this – stupid decision.
Their “constitute an inappropriate form of development, which result in an incongruous, over-dominant feature, out of scale and out of character with the surrounding context and streetscape” reasoning is applicable to much of what they are allowing in the city centre.
By Boom
Who wants to live opposite a casino, walking distance from a high security prison and counterfeit street.
By Anonymous
Perhaps they needed a better Transport Planner – Vision and Validate!
By Anon
The Council don’t seem to be worried about the lack of parking at their own development in Rodney Street. Funny that
By David
Part of the reason we have a severe shortage of housing is that we have too many low-rises. But when a mid-rise is proposed, it’s rejected because it’s too big and not in keeping with the inadequate housing nearby.
By S