[belfastuniguy]

UNDER CONSTRUCTION


Developer: Cultra Developments Ltd
Architect: Like Architects
Contractor:
Floor space: 56 apartments
Height: 8 floors
Cost: £4.5m

Images courtesy of Like Architects

 

[belfastuniguy]

Site clearance work commenced in March/April 2015

Images courtesy of FutureBelfast

 

[dysan1]

Bit surprised that this whole development could only cost £4.5m to build.

 

[JohnnyNI]

I thought it was by Todd Architects? Seems to be a new proposal submitted with Like Architects? But construction is meant to begin in a couple of months...

 

[belfastuniguy]

Yeah new architect. The previous proposal has been scrapped and a new application has been submitted.

Previous proposal

 

[JohnnyNI]

I just hope it doesnt mean a delay in construction. The timeframe I received is as follows:

April 2015: Breaking Ground on site, foundations & building frame works started
October 2015: Core build to main envelope starts
January 2016: Building Frame & Envelope complete
February 2016: Roof complete
April 2016: Windows & Balconies installed
August 2016: Internal fit out complete
October 2016: Construction Complete

 

[transportfanboy]

This isn't the massive vacant lot west of Short Strand and south of Bridge End, is it?

 

[citybus]

No, it's the small plot of land on the south side of Bridge End nestled between the two railway bridges. The area you're talking about is Sirocco Works, which was shelved when the company that proposed a major development there (called Sirocco Quays) went bust. Sirocco would be the highest profile development area in Belfast with the exception of cheap dockland sites or areas blighted by dual carriageways. Asda want to move there but it remains to be seen whether that will happen.

 

[transportfanboy]

Aye, I see where you mean now. It did look to small to cover all that massive area. Thanks for the explanation, though, I always wondered why nothing ever got built in there. It really seems to be begging for it, it's such a blight in the Belfast landscape. If it got an ASDA there that would be a massive one, surely? Have they bought the land there already?

 

[thevanishin]

I heard that the Sirocco site was recently reacquired by the Carvill family, who were behind the Carvill Group, the previous owners who went bankrupt.

 

[belfastuniguy]

Yeah I've also heard the Carvill's have control of the site again, which I think is a positive development.

I hope Asda is told to sling it's hook elsewhere. The recent decline in 'big stores' and the dominance of the larger retailers in the grocery market might help dampen Asda's enthusiasm for such a massive store, hopefully.

I have no issue with a food store or supermarket being present on the site, as part of a larger mixed-use development, but not a vast superstore with surface car parking.

 

[hypnotoad24]

I hope Asda is told to sling it's hook elsewhere

Straight to Connswater. At the rate it's going they can have the entire mall!

 

[belfastuniguy]

Application is recommended for approval

 

[belfastuniguy]

Under construction

Image courtesy of Geograph.ie

 

[Whiteabbey]

Under construction

Great to see a developer building residential. We need more of it to repopulate the city.

 

[Whiteabbey]

The flats have been advertised :

http://www.colliersni.com/development/the-sandford/cnrdev4/

Went past on the train today and had a glance at the site - they're currently working on what looked like the below ground section of the lift shaft.

 

[JohnnyNI]

Yeah there's an underground carpark for the complex. The first apartments will be ready in March 2018 although there are only around 18 left for sale I think.

 

[belfastuniguy]

Crane up

 

[Whiteabbey]

@Colliers_NI are Tweeting that all flats are now sale agreed

 

[citybus]

Yep, they have a sign that confirms it on the site that I saw walking past earler this week. This is still an incredibly slow building site, which given the possible poor quality of the finished article doesn't concern me much.

There was talk upthread of a Connswater or Scirocco Works Asda. At the moment the Consswater tesco is being converted to a large (and it must be very large) furniture shop called Range. I heard that Tesco, and Stewarts before them have a lease that says that another food retailer can't move into the unit, ever, and that there were also restrictions on what could be done with the site, I think demolition was out as well. It seems absurd that such a contract isn't made void when Tesco left the unit never to return.