Wellington Place Progress and The Footbridge
Progress
I have just spoken to Chris Davidson of MEPG, who are developing Wellington Place, which is the huge area/development between Whitehall Road, Wellington Street, City Island and West point. Things are going well, and they envisage starting construction at the end of this year, although there will be some pre construction activities in preparing the site before then.
Initially work will start on two buildings, one residential and one offices, in the south west corner of the plot. This is the corner closest to the bridge over the river on Whitehall Road, by the iron steps up from the canal, and as such is quite close to City Island. The two buildings will be 10 storeys high at the Whitehall Road side, although they slant back to a lower elevation away from the road.
Construction is expected to take around two years for these two blocks. Further development will take place after this so long as there is market demand.
The Footbridge
MEPC have now taken the initiative on the footbridge issue and taken the obligation from the council to actually build the bridge. They have no planning consent as yet, but knowing the attitude of the town planning department within the council towards the footbridge as I do, this will not be an issue. The only other blocker could be that HBG, who are developing Latitude on the Monks Bridge site, provide the ‘pocket park’ as the landing site for the bridge. Chris does not see this being a problem.
This is all good news, however, the bad news is the timeframes, which are likely to be 2 years or more before it is in place.
I have just spoken to Chris Davidson of MEPG, who are developing Wellington Place, which is the huge area/development between Whitehall Road, Wellington Street, City Island and West point. Things are going well, and they envisage starting construction at the end of this year, although there will be some pre construction activities in preparing the site before then.
Initially work will start on two buildings, one residential and one offices, in the south west corner of the plot. This is the corner closest to the bridge over the river on Whitehall Road, by the iron steps up from the canal, and as such is quite close to City Island. The two buildings will be 10 storeys high at the Whitehall Road side, although they slant back to a lower elevation away from the road.
Construction is expected to take around two years for these two blocks. Further development will take place after this so long as there is market demand.
The Footbridge
MEPC have now taken the initiative on the footbridge issue and taken the obligation from the council to actually build the bridge. They have no planning consent as yet, but knowing the attitude of the town planning department within the council towards the footbridge as I do, this will not be an issue. The only other blocker could be that HBG, who are developing Latitude on the Monks Bridge site, provide the ‘pocket park’ as the landing site for the bridge. Chris does not see this being a problem.
This is all good news, however, the bad news is the timeframes, which are likely to be 2 years or more before it is in place.
posted by City Island Residents Group at 3:29 PM
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