Royal Nawaab awaits Stockport Pyramid confirmation
The Royal Nawaab Group wants to change the building’s use to transform the iconic Stockport Pyramid into a huge buffet restaurant.
The application submitted by NK Architects proposes the development of more than 5,000 sq ft of floorspace.
On the ground floor, a 360-person capacity restaurant would have a theatre kitchen, buffet counter, private VIP dining rooms, and back kitchen provision.
Guests would enter the building passing through a reception and waiting area.
The first floor would host a large banquet hall, with space for 680 covers. The floor would also provide a bride room, prayer rooms, and another kitchen.
A third banquet hall on the second floor plans to have a 300-seat capacity, with a smaller ancillary hall for a party of up to 150 guests.
The third floor would be used for storage.
Office space provided on the fourth floor is expected to be used by Royal Nawaab for its own administration purposes.
In total, the building’s capacity reaches just below 1,500 guests, with around 150 members of staff.
Car parking would be provided for 407 vehicles, with 20 spaces reserved for disability permit holders.
The Stockport Pyramid was built in 1992 as an office development, as part of a wider Kings Valley scheme that was never finished.
The previous tenants, the Co-operative Bank, left the building in 2018 and it has been vacant since.
Stockport’s MP, Navendu Mishra, supported the application. He said: “The Pyramid is an iconic and well-known structure on the Stockport landscape, and it is a detriment that it has been vacant for several years.”
He added he would “like to see it brought back to life to complement Stockport’s vibrant cultural offer”.
The application will go before the Heatons and Reddish area committee on Monday and before the Central Area committee on Thursday.
The planning and highways regulation committee will make the final determination.
To view the application, use the reference DC/089342 in Stockport Council’s planning portal.
This has to be the most highly anticipated news of 2024. Couldn’t care less about skyscrapers. The people demand to have a curry in a giant glass pyramid!
By Anonymous
Hope they have some Egyptian dishes on the menu.
By Mummy
But will the halls be named after Roger Reeves, Dick Hargreaves and Chris Denny? We need to be told
By Anonymous
That will see many current Indian style restaurants cease trading , which may be no bad result!
By Concerned
Please is there not a better use for this structure. What an absolute waste.
Look forward to seeing the traffic plans and chaos predicted for local streets in heatons cheadle heath etc already people park on the local roads and head off for the day days.
By Anonymous
Work has already started on here with a kitchen already nearly completed
By Anonymous
Will be great but hopefully it’s away and not to intrusive for people living in the area
By Itsme
The Egyptians would be proud
By Anonymous
Another meal place really.
Surely something else can be used for this building.
By Anonymous
Be empty for seven years and someone complained is there a better alternative????????.
By Anonymous
I live in Heston moor I oppose the plan it would course traffic congestion on didsbury road
By Anonymous
Very good
By Ayaz
Mashallah
By Amin