{"id":191846,"date":"2025-10-11T02:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T02:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191846\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T02:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T02:17:12","slug":"ollier-smurthwaite-submits-nine-home-scheme-for-manchester-car-park-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191846\/","title":{"rendered":"Ollier Smurthwaite submits nine-home scheme for Manchester car park site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Manchester practice\u2019s Velvet Cutters scheme for developer Torison Homes, submitted this summer, features a five-storey building at 6-10 Little Peter Street, a site currently being used as a car park, near Deansgate metro station and the city\u2019s cluster of high-rise towers.<\/p>\n<p>It comprises a mixture of one, two and three-bed units with duplexes on the top floor. All nine homes have private amenity space, while the duplexes have recessed roof terraces.<\/p>\n<p>The ground floor is raised above the street level to benefit the ground-floor dwellings, the practice says, and bins, bikes and plant are located in a semi-basement.<\/p>\n<p>Ollier Smurthwaite says the 806m\u00b2 development has been designed despite the \u2018challenging viability\u2019 and the restrictions of a small corner site just north of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architectsjournal.co.uk\/news\/simpsonhaugh-unveils-plans-for-more-manchester-towers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deansgate Square<\/a> and four residential skyscrapers designed by SimpsonHaugh.<\/p>\n<p>The practice says it has designed the scheme to \u2018follow the historic precedent\u2019 of the redbrick warehouses and factories in the city\u2019s Knots Hill area. This includes using red bricks and a greyslate roof, while the ground floor is finished in a brown glazed terracotta.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-802115\" class=\"size-full wp-image-802115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_0070-scaled.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-802115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ollier Smurthwaite Architects\u2019 Little Peter Street scheme (August 2025)<\/p>\n<p>Terracotta is also used for the building\u2019s parapet, which is earmarked for \u2018a handmade sign from a local artist displaying the building\u2019s name [Velvet Cutters] a nod to one of the former uses of the site\u2019, including former arts studios.<\/p>\n<p>The practice adds: \u2018The new building looks to knit together the historic structures that remain and, through the material pallet and intimate street pattern, are a reminder of a time when the industrial revolution was born. This creates an interesting counterpoint with modern Manchester and the towers of Deansgate Square next door.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The development is not far from SimpsonHaugh\u2019s approved plans for a 76-storey tower to the north of Deansgate metro station. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architectsjournal.co.uk\/news\/simpsonhaugh-submits-record-smashing-manchester-tower-plans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Viadux 2 scheme<\/a> for developer Salboy and contractor Domis, is planned for a 1.49ha site between the Deansgate-Castlefield Metrolink station and Manchester Arena, and would be the tallest building in the UK outside London.<\/p>\n<p>Project data<\/p>\n<p>Location 6-10 Little Peter Street, Castlefield, Manchester<br \/>Local authority Manchester City Council<br \/>Type of project Residential<br \/>Client Torsion Homes<br \/>Architect Ollier Smurthwaite Architects<br \/>Planning consultant Paul Butler Associates<br \/>Structural engineer WML Consulting<br \/>M&amp;E consultant Ridge and Partners<br \/>Gross internal floor area 806m\u00b2<br \/>Annual CO2 emissions TBA<\/p>\n<p>Current site view<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Manchester practice\u2019s Velvet Cutters scheme for developer Torison Homes, submitted this summer, features a five-storey building at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-191846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}