Property shorts: Calderpeel honour; Hat-trick for The Rock
ALTRINCHAM artictects practice Calderpeel has been awarded the overall design award by Trafford Council for its work on a residential scheme in Hale.
The council panel chose The Lillies on South Downs Drive in Hale as the overall winner in the competition.
The panel commended the designers for the “outstanding modelling and use of materials, the subtleties of design of each elevation and its contribution to the street scene and its sympathy with the character of this part of the borough”.
Trafford Council’s Design Awards were launched to recognise the quality of many new buildings across the borough.
Tom Mulroy, an architect at Calderpeel said: “It’s important a local planning authority recognises the impact of design to enhance the borough and develop individual sites on their own merit. We’ve been developing our designs over a number of years and hope to improve even further in the future.”
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HAMMERSON has secured three brands from retail giant Arcadia The Rock development in Bury.
Opening on Friday, Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and Burton will join the fashion line up at the new shopping and leisure destination alongside Cult, Next, H&M and Oasis.
Top Shop is taking a two level, 10,500 sq ft store which will double the size of its current unit in the town and will be located next to Cult and River Island.
Dorothy Perkins and Burton have a two level 8,200 sq ft outlet on Central Street opposite Peacocks.
Richard Poyser, assistant leasing director at Hammerson said: “The Arcadia brands continue to be favourites on the British high street and securing a Topshop store of this scale is great for the scheme.
“We now have a strong cluster of youth fashion brands which compliment the offer of our anchor stores Debenhams and Marks & Spencer.”
The 640,000 sq ft retail and leisure offer at The Rock also includes flagship stores Next, Peacocks and Primark and leisure operators Vue, AMF Bowling and Pizza Express.
CBRE, and GCW acted on behalf of The Rock.
