Property Alliance plans for Reedham House deferred
Manchester City Council’s planning and highways committee has deferred a decision on plans by Property Alliance Group to demolish a building on South King Street in the city to make way for a 14-storey office block.
The committee voted instead for a site visit to see the listed building which would be demolished if the development goes ahead.
The proposal is for 4,849 sqm of office floorspace of the Grade II Listed 3 Smithy Lane and the Carriage Works.
Objections were received from Historic England and Save Britain’s Heritage about the loss of 31-33 King Street West and the impact of the new build on the retained listed buildings and the surrounding Conservation Area.
Officers told the committee that application would need to be referred to the Secretary of State for a decision if members approved it.
In an hour long meeting councillors opted for another site visit of a planned nine-storey 261-bed student accommodation block which would include the conversion of Victorian villas near Whitworth Park.
Britannia Group received planning consent from Manchester City Council for its proposals to create Daisy Bank Park, a development of 72 new homes on the former probation centre site on Daisy Bank Road, Victoria Park, South Manchester.
Nick Carter, development director, Britannia Group said: “We are very excited by our plans to transform the site, especially bringing a large building back to the corner of Daisy Bank Road and Laindon Road and creating much needed new family homes for the area.”
The site lies outside the Victoria Park Conservation Area, which dates to 1837 and includes 20 Listed buildings, the designs by Ollier Smurthwaite Architects.
Avison Young is the planning consultant on behalf of Britannia Group. Britannia Group has already started demolition works on the site with construction work to follow on within six months.
