Blueoak’s £20m Sale office-to-resi progresses
Trafford Council has approved plans for external alterations to Sale Point, which the developer wants to convert into 79 flats.
Office-to-resi specialist Blueoak Estates lodged plans to redevelop the 50,000 sq ft Washway Road office earlier this year. Last week the council agreed to allow facade alterations despite objections from local residents.
A change of use request under permitted development rights will be determined by the council separately.
The £20m scheme features a mixture of one- and two-bedroom apartments and plans to bolster the 1970s building’s sustainable credentials through the addition of solar panels and a kinetic energy recovery heat pump system.
Blueoak has described the conversion as representing a £20m investment. Pritchard Architectural Design has been recruited to draw up the plans.
Asteer Planning, Philip Dunbavin Acoustics, and CBO Transport aided in this application. You can view it for yourself by searching reference number 114592/PMA/24 on Trafford Council’s planning portal.
Blueoak has leaned heavily into office-to-residential conversion, submitting plans for a similar scheme in Chester earlier this month. A £22m conversion of Alexander House in Old Trafford by Blueoak completed last summer.
