Plans in to turn Creative Quarter offices into flats

Plans have been lodged with Nottingham City Council to turn a block of serviced offices in the Lace Market into 21 flats.

Sutton Place Business Centre at 49-51 Stoney Street has been used by Citibase to provide small-scale serviced offices. Now, Perrymead Estates wants to turn the basement, ground, first, second, third and fourth floors into apartments.

Citibase is currently in the process of relocating tenants at 49-51 Stoney Street to another of its properties at 32a Stoney Street after selling the building to Perrymead.

A planning application submitted to the City Council outlines a development that would include four bedsit/studio flats, 14 two-bedroom and three 3-bed apartments in the heart of Nottingham’s Creative Quarter.

Planning chiefs at Nottingham City Council were consulted about a similar scheme in 2015 and raised concerns about losing office space in the city centre and the quality of any accommodation proposed.

Perrymead Estates currently owns The KoolKat Building on St Marys Gate in Nottingham.

A design and access statement on behalf of Perrymead Estates says the new development at 49-51 Stoney Streey would create “an attractive development in the heart of the historic Lace Market benefitting from the amenity and views
offered by St Mary’s Church adjacent and the wider services that the city centre has to offer”.