28-storey tower planned for ex-Harry Ramsden’s site
MANCHESTER developer Daren Whitaker has submitted plans for another residential tower in the city.
He already has a pipeline of around 1,000 apartments which are at various stages, some are approved while others going through the planning process.
The latest is a 28-storey tower with 301 apartments on the former Harry Ramsden’s plot in Regent Road. An earlier scheme had planning permission for 245 apartments.
He has made the application through a company called LQ Developments. Meanwhile, a vehicle called WB Developments (Salford), whose founding director is Mr Whitaker, has lodged an application for 491 apartments across four blocks, one of them 21-storeys tall, on a vacant three-acre plot nearby next to the Campanile hotel.
In April another of Mr Whitaker’s companies, CS Developments (Manchester), submitted plans for a 282 apartments across two towers of 22 and 29 storeys on the banks of the River Medlock close to Whitworth Street West.
Mr Whitaker, who runs Renaker Build, already has permission for 497 apartments in 31 and 19-storey towers next to the River Irwell at Greengate through another company called Pinnacle Developments (NW).
