Plans revealed for Sainsbury’s apartment scheme

Further details of plans for over 560 new residences on the former Sainsbury’s supermarket site have been revealed, following the submission of a planning application in December 2021.

Developers, Amstone Ventures, plan to build 563 new homes, a mix of one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments as well as 34 three-bedroom townhouses, on the former supermarket site after purchasing the 3.28 acre plot in March last year. Properties will be split across three apartment blocks, as well opening up the riverside for pedestrian access along the route of the Goyt, and creating a new public square within the development.

Dubbed Knightsbridge, the £100 million plans have been altered from their original design for the planning application in light of a public consultation exercise and feedback from Stockport Council and PlacesMatter, which has seen properties consolidated into three buildings, rather than six, and widened the public access routes through the scheme.

While the Sainsbury’s supermarket building will be demolished to make way for the scheme, underground parking facilities at the store will be repurposed to provide parking for residents via a new access round to link the site with major routes and avoid increasing traffic through Stockport town centre itself. The scheme also aims to improve walking and cycling routes into the town centre from the Eastern side.

Should planning permission be approved for the development, construction on No.1 Knightsbridge could begin by the end of 2022.

Amstone are supported on the development by, architects Leach Rhodes Walker, landscape architects Layer.Studio, structural engineers RoC Consulting, planning consultants from Deloitte and cost consultant Cumming Group.