Zephyr X lodges £70m Cheetham Hill resi plans
Having consulted on the proposals last year, the developer has submitted an application to Manchester City Council to build a 23-storey build-to-rent tower.
Zephyr X wants to deliver a £70m project that would provide 237 apartments on a site fronting Cheetham Hill Road and bound by Carnarvon Street and Gibson Place. The plot has been vacant for several years and was previously the forecourt for a car showroom.
Designed by Hawkins\Brown, the project would provide 155 two-bedroom apartments and 82 with one-bedroom, as well as ground floor commercial space.
To learn more about the project, search for reference number 138696/FO/2023 on Manchester City Council’s planning portal.
Iceni Projects is advising Zephyr on planning and KS4 Consulting is the project manager.
Zephyr X specialises in the development of residential schemes and is currently delivering care homes in Wigan and Blackburn as well as a 375-apartment BTR project in Milton Keynes.
Cheetham Hill is becoming an increasingly attractive prospect for developers due to the amount of regeneration going on around it. Last month, Benjamin Property Company put forward plans for a 25-storey scheme off Park Place, a short distance from Zephyr’s site.
Manchester College’s new city campus and Salboy’s 556-home Waterhouse Gardens are also nearby, while FEC and Manchester City Council’s 15,000-home Victoria North and the proposed regeneration of Strangeways will only hasten the speed of development in places like Cheetham Hill.
