Residential plans for former Virgin Media office complex tipped for approval

Plans to turn the former Virgin Media offices on Daleside Road in Nottingham into 82 homes have been given the nod by city council planning chiefs.

They have recommended that Nottingham Community Housing Association will be able to partially demolish Diamond Plaza and transform into a residential scheme, ahead of the council’s Planning Committee meeting next Wednesday (December 22).

As part of the plans, Virgin Media will retain its technical hub on the ground floor of the west wing of Diamond Plaza 1. Some seven staff ae employed on site to manage the technical hub which supplies a large part of the East Midlands with fibre optic broadband services.

The new scheme would have space for 125 cars and 82 bikes. It would be made up a mixture of houses, maisonettes and flats.

A planning statement reads: “The proposed development represents a viable and deliverable prospect which would be in keeping with the local built environment, building on the positive characteristics of the area to provide a responsive and sustainable residential scheme.”