Well, being the innovative property development company Time & Tide are, we have opened up a 'blog' to allow all interested parties to post their genuine comments and thoughts on our approach to development generally. I trust that we will be able to answer criticism when given and allow you to influence how we develop all our European sites.
I look forward to the dialogue!
13 comments:
I would be especially interested in peoples opinion of our Halton Mills site now it is taking shape. I hope everyone will have an opinion good or bad!
Gravity Tower
Your article on the proposed gavity tower on Store Street, Manchester is misleading, advising that there have been several rounds of consultation. I live next door to the site, will be extremely adversely affected yet there is no communication despite numerous requests. The proposed development is excessively dense and represents a greedy money making development, impinging on the light, amenity and views of the surrounding, established developments.
Katie
Thank you for your comments to which I respond as follows.
Firstly my company has carried out several rounds of consultation through our consultants with representatives of the village. The upshot of this was that the original proposed building filling the site footprint in totality was not favoured and the preference was for partial footprint development with height not being the most sensitive issue.
I cannot agree with your comments that imply we are 'greedy' and suggesting we only consider profits. It has to be accepted that Piccadilly Village was a very pioneering development, indeed the thought of building residential property in the city centre then was largely unheard of in any numbers. It could be said that PV were largely responsible for the current trend of urban renaissance. As you know you live on the edge of a regeneration area of East Manchester, just across the Inner ring road there is a mass of development with ISIS being 21 storeys. It is one opinion that the 'Ash' site is a hugely important site in ensuring there is cohesion and ultimately success linking the 2 distinctly separate areas as one. Hence the importance of this as a landmark site.
If you study the proposals closely I think you would reconsider your remarks questioning the impact on the local amenity as I believe the submitted proposals enhance the area dramatically. Opinions are of course subjective more so in city centre development especially in the UK's 2nd city where we all have to sometimes accept change and evolution if only for the greater good.
Finally I am not aware of your numerous requests for communication and perhaps if you furnish me with exactly how you correspond I assure you it will be looked into.
John.
The proposal/tower looks superb.
Can you confirm the exact height of Gravity in stories and metres please. Various property websites are giving different heights.(confusing)
Can you give us any indication when construction will begin.
Can you also tell us when more information will be available about the proposal either on the Time & Tide website or a new Gravity website.
Many thanks.
John.
John
Thank you very much for your positive comments. To answer your questions the large tower is 36 storeys high and measures 116.2m from ground level at the Great Ancoats end of the site and the small lower is 6 storeys high and measures 21.3m from ground level at the Great Ancoats end of the site, this tower has 2 storeys below ground.
Planning depending we are looking to begin construction in January 2008.
Thanks again for your comments and please feel free to contact us again should you have any more questions
Helen
Is the tower called Gravity or Zararchie? And will it have parking for the 331 apartment!?
Tony
Thank you for your enquiry. The iconic building is being called ‘Gravity’ by Time & Tide to symbolise its pulling power to draw people to the destination.
There is approximately 100 parking spaces but a car club pick up and drop spot will be housed immediately outside the tower on Store Street.
Planning permission is due in September so please follow the Time & Tide website to keep updated.
I have heard that you are planning to build apartments next to the river by the play area and also to the front of the site in front of the show- house.Can you confirm this.
Time & Tide do have planning permission for 2 riverside apartment blocks, please feel free to call into the sales centre to view a proposed site plan.
Is Zararchie Tower the same development???
The development is called Gravity. An element of the scheme has been sold ‘pre-release’ to a 3rd party developer who I believe is refereeing to it by another name. This is though a Time &Tide development and is named Gravity to reference its pioneering ability to draw people to the location with its compelling architecture and specification. Please follow www.timeandtidehomes.com for further information
Dear Time and Tide homes,
I have been following the development of your Gravity project with great interest and am pleased to see the prospect of a high quality development. However, in initial press releases it stated that you were aiming this development at owner occupiers as a reaction to the over representation of buy-to-let or buy-to-leave landlords in many developments in the city. Whilst there are elements of the design that could be considered to be add to overall sustainability such as the plaza and mixed ground floor uses, I'm disappointed to see that the accommodation yet again, is the standard mix of small 1 and 2 bed apartments. Developers are beginning to innovate in the city with 3 and 4 bed family sized apartments, greater adaptability and a mix of tenures. Its disappointing than T & T have not taken up this lead.
Why have T&T passed up the opportuntity to make the development a genuine long-term prospect for owner occupiers rather than reverting, as most developers do, to making it appeal soley to the buy-to-let investment market?
Thank you for your interest, and the questions you raise are indeed valid. The standard response though would always be one of commercability. using the analogy of 'why do car makers produce the majority of their cars in silver?' or why to apartment specifications always provide for laminate flooring?' the answer being that the majority of the market wants them. The fact they may be impractical or unimaginative is an irrelevant argument in the commercial world.
There is also the further suggestion that the infrastructure is not fully in place as yet to cater adequately for families? Therefore the market is not yet there to encourage the supply of family homes in mass?
It also intrigues me the argument that properties occupied by a rental dweller are somehow inferior to an owner occupier. Surely the tenure is irrelevant to an owner occupier. People will always want to live in the most desirable home possible whether this is rented or owned, will they not?
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