With planning consent awarded for the ambitious £30m Downings Malthouse development in Gloucester, developers are now on the lookout for contractors to carry out the work.
Read moreGloucester City Council’s planning committee has given its decision on the Baker’s Quay development – and it went down to the wire.
Read moreActing as Development Manager for Royal London Asset Management, Rokeby has advised on the freehold sale of the 78 West Street, Brighton development to Whitbread.
Rokeby had secured a planning consent for a 126-bed hotel with ancillary ground floor restaurant accommodation and commenced demolition works in March 2020.
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The southern gateway to Gloucester Quays could soon be home to Gloucester’s most energy efficient residential building. That’s the aspiration of Adrian Goodall, director of Rokeby Merchant Developments Ltd.
Read moreRokeby has recommenced work on its Premier Inn hotel site at 78 West Street. Originally started on 9th March 2020 works had to suspended because of lockdown. The enabling works package, let to Southern Demolition, we are delighted to announce has now restarted. This will include stripping out the building and demolition of the upper floors.
Read moreMerchant Anglo have this week submitted a new planning application for their next phase at Merchant Park. To be called Station Place, the £4.8 million scheme will provide 50,333 sq ft in 10 new starter units, in sizes from 3,000 sq ft.
Read moreDeveloper Rokeby Merchant has released its first images of the new residential block it is proposing to construct in the next phase of its Bakers Quay site in Gloucester.
The proposed building would go on the site of the recently demolished concrete silo within the Downings element of Bakers Quay.
Director Adrian Goodall advised, “Downings benefits from an existing consent to construct 42 apartments and 18,000 ft.2 of A3 restaurant accommodation.
Read moreDevelopers behind the Bakers Quay regeneration scheme in Gloucester have set out their plans for restoration of historic buildings in the next phase of the development.
Phase one of the scheme – 47 apartments and two commercial units in the new Provender building, a 104-bed Premier Inn hotel, a drive thru Costa Coffee outlet and a Beefeater restaurant in a restored Engine House – was completed in Summer 2018. Now the attention of developers Rokeby Merchant will turn to the historic Downings Malthouse on the site, with plans for new apartments and commercial units in the converted buildings and a new-build block alongside them.
Read more“We want to get on with it” – that’s the message from Rokeby Merchant, developers of Bakers Quay in Gloucester.
The first phase of the development – the Provender apartments, Premier Inn hotel, Beefeater restaurant and Costa Coffee – was completed in Summer 2018, but Downings Malthouse and the Malthouse Extension, (the second phase adjacent heritage buildings) are still derelict after 20 years of standing empty, with limited time to save them.
Planning permission exists for the buildings to be converted to apartments and new commercial units created, but the commercial viability of the undeveloped phases is still challenging – especially in light of the Coronavirus crisis.
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