Office block set to become all flats as Sheffield Council approves major city centre conversion plan
Another large Sheffield city centre office block is set to become flats after officials rubber stamped the plans.
Sheffield Council has granted planning permission for the scheme, which would see the big Belgrave House building, in a conservation area on Bank Street, converted into housing.
The building has nine floors, including some in the basement, and rises up to six floors above the ground at its highest point,
The site is within the city centre conservation area and council officers say it effectively wraps around a Grade II listed building known as Victoria Chambers.
There had been previous planning permission to convert some of the building to flats, but with some of it remaining as office space.
But under the permission agreed now, it will be changed into 106 self-contained residential units.
A council report on the plans stated: “The site is located within the city centre conservation area.
“The host building is not part of the city’s historic fabric but is instead a large modern office building which, whilst having some distinctive features, such as the stepped form and protecting top floor, is not particularly characterful or attractive and does not make any significant positive contribution to the character or appearance of the Conservation Area. “
The plans were approved subject to conditions involving adequate bike storage and bin arrangements, noise standards and rules to make sure ‘unsympathetic’ new windows and doors are not installed.