£50m skyscraper planned for Plymouth’s waterfront

A new addition to Plymouth’s skyline is in the pipeline with plans to build the city’s tallest building.

A £50m skyscraper is planned for Plymouth’s waterfront as developers work on plans for the Shepherds Wharf tower.

Plans include a 10-floor rectangular apartment block with the skyscraper tower next to it. The two residential buildings would comprise 200 flats, with restaurants, shops and commercial space on the ground floor and mezzanine.

Shepherds Wharf is planned for a patch of derelict land at Sutton Harbour next to the two Premier Inn hotels.

The company behind the Shepherds Wharf scheme Comcor (Shepherds Wharf) Ltd has worked with city architects LHC Design on the plans.

The site received planning consent for a previous scheme in 2008 but it was never built and the land changed hands several times.

Mike Leech, Comcor’s marketing manager, said: “The old planning consent was for 23 storeys. We are going to ask if we can take it to 30 storeys and make it the biggest building in the south of England.”