Green light for £17m Fruit Market residential development

DEVELOPERS have been given the green light for the £17m residential development at Hull’s Fruit Market regeneration site.

Joint venture developers Wykeland Beal submitted the planning application in June which will see it deliver 109 homes in the cultural quarter.

Hull City Council’s planning committee voted unanimously to allow the one, two and three bedroom homes as part of an urban village to be built.

The development is arranged in four blocks – three of them are bounded by Queen Street, Humber Street and Blanket Row, while the other is to the north of Blanket Row, on land bounded by Finkle Street, Queen Street and the A63 Castle Street.

Wykeland Beal was formed by regeneration leader Wykeland Group and residential developer Beal Homes. It’s overall development of the Fruit Market is costing £80m and will include commercial space, retail and leisure space.

Richard Beal, chairman and managing director of Beal Homes, said: “Creating a new residential community is an essential element of making the Fruit Market a vibrant, sustainable and successful area and approval of this planning application is another major milestone in this hugely exciting regeneration project.

“We would like to take this opportunity to thank members of the planning committee for their support for these plans. We will now focus on working with the council to discharge the planning conditions and we look forward to delivering a distinctive development of exceptional quality of which the city can be very proud.”

Wykeland Beal has already invested more than £130,000 in archeological investigations. Work is expected to begin early next year and the full residential development is planned to be delivered by the end of 2019.

Garry Taylor, city major projects and infrastructure manager for Hull City Council, said: “The regeneration of the Fruit Market is an integral part of Hull’s plans to become a world-class visitor destination and is already proving itself with events like Humber Street Sesh and the Freedom Festival highlighting how popular the area is becoming.

“I believe that, once complete, the Fruit Market will be firmly placed on the map as one of Hull’s unique cultural gems and these homes will prove incredibly popular.”