Velocity Aim For 30 Floor Sheffield Tower
With the success of City Lofts Tower in Sheffield not to mention their own schemes, local developer Velocity are planning a 30 floor plus residential tower on St Mary's Gate at the site of the aborted Eclipse Development.
The 22 floor Eclipse tower received planning permission and sold out but thanks to rising costs CALA who were developing the project were unable to progress with the scheme and sold it on to Velocity whilst standing up the purchasers. Unlike CALA, who haven't messed with tall buildings since, Velocity have had a history of delivering buildings in Sheffield including the successful V1 venture.
The site having planning permission already for a tower makes it the idea location for Velocity who aim to build a 30 floor mixed use scheme. CALA had previously applied for planning permission to go up to 28 and rumours have been floating for sometime of a 32 floor plan on the site so Velocity certainly are not thinking too outrageously, particularly when you consider CALA applied in 2003 and times have moved on since then in Sheffield with more acceptance of tall buildings.
This will mean a likely substantial overhaul of the original Broadway Malyan penned design by an as yet unnamed architect. This will include 290 new apartments, grade A office space on the lower-levels as with their V1 development, and plenty of parking.
The tower will stand next to a roundabout at the edge of the fashionable Eccelsall Road area that has proven popular with many other developers including major future developments like that next door, the under construction City Gate S1 development by Bond Bryan for Tiger Developments.
Velocity aim to launch their scheme in 2008 which means Sheffield can look to a revised proposal going through the planning system next year. In otherwords, Eclipse is back. Kind of.
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