Pictures show how new flats would transform former Sheffield car dealer site
Pictures show planned flats, as extra floor approved
Pictures show how a giant flats development on a former Sheffield car showroom could look.
Developers want to replace what was formerly a car showroom on Ecclesall Road near Champs, at the junction with Pear Street, with student flats.
The site has more recently been run as a car park, since the former Network Q dealership was demolished.
Pictures by Southgate and Sarabia Architects, which accompany the latest planning applications for the scheme, show how the scheme could look.
Sheffield Council has approved plans to change the designs with the addition of an extra floor on one of the blocks, as part of fire safety improvements.
The developers say that the extra floor is needed for them to install features including evacuation lifts in the buildings.
The plans attracted only one objection, which said the car park that is currently on the site provides spaces for local businesses where a deficiency exists; that there are already enough apartments like this in the area; and that parking was far more valuable than the accommodation proposed .
An officer’s report on the changes to the scheme, which have just been approved by the authority, said the overall increase in height to Block D, an additional 12th floor, produced the most visible change.
The additional floor would add a further 3m to the overall height of block D, but was acceptable.