Zephyr X lodges £70m Cheetham Hill resi plans
Having consulted on the proposals last year, the developer has submitted an application to Manchester City Council to build a 23-storey build-to-rent tower.
Zephyr X wants to deliver a £70m project that would provide 237 apartments on a site fronting Cheetham Hill Road and bound by Carnarvon Street and Gibson Place. The plot has been vacant for several years and was previously the forecourt for a car showroom.
Designed by Hawkins\Brown, the project would provide 155 two-bedroom apartments and 82 with one-bedroom, as well as ground floor commercial space.
To learn more about the project, search for reference number 138696/FO/2023 on Manchester City Council’s planning portal.
Iceni Projects is advising Zephyr on planning and KS4 Consulting is the project manager.
Zephyr X specialises in the development of residential schemes and is currently delivering care homes in Wigan and Blackburn as well as a 375-apartment BTR project in Milton Keynes.
Cheetham Hill is becoming an increasingly attractive prospect for developers due to the amount of regeneration going on around it. Last month, Benjamin Property Company put forward plans for a 25-storey scheme off Park Place, a short distance from Zephyr’s site.
Manchester College’s new city campus and Salboy’s 556-home Waterhouse Gardens are also nearby, while FEC and Manchester City Council’s 15,000-home Victoria North and the proposed regeneration of Strangeways will only hasten the speed of development in places like Cheetham Hill.
Solid looking proposal and good to see the city expanding out this direction, however the overall area needs to feature a sizeable green space as part of its long term goal (preferably by the riverside further down from this site) Overdevelopment of every parcel & slither of land is beneficial to nobody who lives, works and visits the city..
By Anonymous
Tram should be extended down cheetham hill road
By Anonymous
Yet more grey to depress us all . What is wrong with these developers and the council should refuse just because of this one factor . Change the grey to a more inviting and rewarding colour for everybody . Don’t we have enough grey clouds to put up with already in this part of the world ?
By Anonymous
Agree with Anonymous, why grey bricks on so many builds. It is surely the worst color for Manchester. Does red brick cost more or something? Just look how good the cladding samples for Waterhouse Gardens are
By Bob