Xpercity lodges plans for Stockport office-to-resi
Lambert House in Cheadle will be converted into 107 apartments under plans lodged by the developer, which acquired the building earlier this year.
Xpercity bought the 60,000 sq ft building that was once home to the AA after the Empire Property vehicle that owned it previously collapsed. Xpercity has rebranded the 1980s office complex as Weavers Yard.
Plans for the site include transforming the vacant office space into one- and two-bedroom apartments as well as delivering a gym.
Damion Marcus Burrows Architects is working with Xpercity on the Weavers Yared project and CV Planning is advising on the application.
To learn more, search for reference number DC/093954 on Stockport Council’s planning portal.
Xpercity was set up earlier this year as a development spin-out of Big Red Construction. Big Red is lined up as main contractor for Lambert House.
Xpercity’s second Greater Manchester scheme is a 69-home development on Store Street, revealed by Place North West in October.
Coming soon: SMBC claiming that turning an old office block into flats – quite a lot of them small bedsits with bed/living/kitchen in the same space looking at the plans – is adequately meeting all local housing demand, and so still absolutely no need to have a proper local policy or upset the local nimby vote.
By Rotringer
Ideally this site would be cleared and decent houses built instead, which I’m sure there is more demand for in this area. Poor office to residential conversions are future slum housing.
By GetItBuilt!
I worked in one of these buildings when it was an HMRC office, same as Archer House in Stockport. The walls are paper thin and the flats are tiny. Like living in a rabbit hutch
By Anonymous