Strategic Housing Development
31/01/2024: Amendments to original application lodged on LRD6042/23-S3A include the following:
-40 no. residential apartments over 8 floors (30no. 2-bed/4 person & 10no. 2-bed/3 person units, each with a private ‘winter garden’ and/or balcony on the south and/or north elevation, at 1st to 8th floors inclusive), replacing consented office floor area (c. 4,113sqm total, over 6 floors) within the Block B2 building;
-Co-working (c.229 sqm) and community/cultural space (c.52 sqm) at ground floor level, replacing consented cafe/restaurant (c.236sqm) at Block B1;
-Reconfiguration of ancillary internal residential communal amenity area at mezzanine level, to include residents’ lobby, lounge and fitness area (c.256sqm), replacing the consented residential amenity co-working space (300sqm) at Block B.
-And all ancillary and associated site, structural and landscape works proposed to the amended Block B2 in with the consented scheme, including:
Design adjustments at the interface of proposed Block B2 with the consented adjoining Block A building to the east and Block B1 to the west, including tie-in of residential floor levels and increase in roof parapet height (by 1.0m) of Block B2;
Amendments to permitted landscaping at roof level of Block B2 and part of Block B1 to accommodate proposed change to Block B2 roof level;
Alteration of the northern Parkgate Street façade of Block B2 to suit residential use and to accommodate external, recessed private amenity (winter gardens & balconies).
Alteration of the southern façade of Block B2 to suit residential use and to accommodate external, recessed private amenity (balconies);
20no. additional visitor bicycle spaces and 2no. cargo bike spaces within the consented public realm at surface level;
Minor footprint extension and reconfiguration of internal floor plan at permitted basement/ undercroft, resulting in an increased floor area from c.144sqm to c.164sqm, to accommodate additional ancillary residential bicycle storage (80no. spaces);
Reconfiguration of ground and mezzanine floors of consented Block B1, to accommodate the proposed co-working and reconfigured residential amenity areas and additional ancillary refuse, circulation, plant and non-residential back of house areas;
Removal of combined heat pump/chiller unit with associated screening on the roof of Block C.
The proposed development comprises mixed use residential and commercial redevelopment (circa 43,353 square metres gross floor area) of a brownfield site, accommodated in six number blocks ranging in height from eight to 29 storeys with basement and undercroft, and including:
• 481 number ‘Build to Rent’ apartments (66 number studio units, 298 number one-bed units and 117 number two-bed units);
• ancillary residents’ amenity rooms and facilities, including co-working spaces, one of which (circa 119 square metres) to be made available to the public for hire for cultural uses/ events;
• commercial office (circa 3,698 square metres), retail (circa 214 square metres) and café/ restaurant (circa 444 square metres) uses; and
• all associated and ancillary conservation and site development works.
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