APPROVED: 1000 New Flats By The Lowry Hotel

SALFORD City Council have approved 1000 new flats to be built on the car park between the five-star Lowry Hotel and The Edge luxury apartments by the River Irwell.

“We believe our revised proposals for new apartments and commercial space will revitalise this site and play a major role in the on-going regeneration of the Chapel Street corridor and central Salford”

The new Chapel Wharf scheme by Dandara - developers behind the nearby Spectrum scheme and Castlefied's St George's Island apartments - will see four tower blocks up to 22-storeys high built on the Chapel Street site.

The site between the Lowry Hotel (left) and The Edge (right)

Back in June 2014, Confidential revealed Dandara's new intentions for the site after plans for a 37-storey tower lodged a decade earlier were scrapped following a market downturn. 

However, planning consent still existed for the four-acre site with plans by architectural firm, Axis Mason, finally gaining approval last week.

The scheme will include studio, one, two and three-bed apartments alongside 16,000 sq ft of commerical ground floor units.

Thankfully, the scheme will also see the ugly vacant office and warehouse space blighting the entrance to the hotel demolished (you mean the interesting Modernist buildings at The Lowry Hotel entrance? Ed.)

The interesting Modernist buildings at The Lowry Hotel entrance will be demolished

Martin Brown of Dandara said: “We believe our revised proposals for new apartments and commercial space will revitalise this site and play a major role in the on-going regeneration of the Chapel Street corridor and central Salford.”

Objections to the proposals were received from residents of the neighbouring Edge and Century Buildings apartments, citing loss of view and sunlight.

Still, with plans getting the go-ahead it seems Dandara's major new development will prove a harsh lesson to those who buy next to a car park/building plot so close to the city centre. 

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