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Developer Ropley Properties Ltd has asked Trafford council’s planning team for a ‘screening opinion’ over the proposed scheme for the Broad Road building.
It would allow the current building to be bulldozed to allow a block comprising one and two-bed apartments ‘stepping downwards’ towards the west to ‘integrate’ with neighbouring roofs.
Parts of the western areas of the site are proposed to be a residents’ garden. The car park in the rear of the site will be mostly retained, albeit with its access amended to use the servicing access off Wharf Road, and would provide 22 spaces, as well as access for refuse vehicles to service the proposed bin store.
DPP Planning have submitted the request for a screening opinion on behalf of Ropley.
“The proposals have been carefully developed in conjunction with Trafford Council’s planning and design officers,” documents on the Trafford planning portal say.
“We consider that we have taken appropriate measures to comply with the Trafford Design Code supplementary planning document, as well as the design guidelines and policies outlined in the Trafford Local Plan Core Strategy and National Planning Policy Framework.”
The site is at the junction between Broad Road and Wharf Road. It is surrounded by a variety of uses, including Sale Leisure Centre, multi-storey car park, nursery, Royal Mail Distribution Centre, hotel, offices, and housing, including a block of apartments west of the site.
