The council has rejected proposals from Capital Builders for a 21-storey apartment block, labeling the scheme “significantly incongruous and discordant within the street scene”.
Capital Builders submitted proposals for the 56-apartment development on the corner of Talbot Road and Chester Road in August.
Trafford Council has now refused the application, citing 13 different reasons.
These include a lack of affordable housing and on-site car parking, and the applicant’s failure to “demonstrate the proposed residential development would deliver suitable living conditions and good standards of residential amenity for prospective occupiers”.
“The proposal would not improve the economic, social and environmental conditions of the area nor does it comply with the development plan and therefore does not comprise sustainable development,” Trafford Council’s decision notice states.
Designed by Tang & Associates, the scheme would have seen the site of Tommy’s House of Fires showroom redeveloped.
The ground floor and the first floor were earmarked for commercial space and residents’ facilities. The upper 19 floors would have comprised two one-bedroom apartments, 34 with two bedrooms, 18 three-bedroom duplexes and two four-bedroom properties.
The developer behind the tower, Capital Builders NW, was formed in February 2021 and lists Khalid Mahmood as its sole director.
To find out more about this application, search Trafford Council’s planning portal using reference number 107225/OUT/22.
