The proposed Lofthaus development A long-planned skyscraper in Preston could finally be about to get off the ground – seven years after it was first conce
A long-planned skyscraper in Preston could finally be about to get off the ground – seven years after it was first conceived.The Lofthaus development will see a 70-metre tall tower of around 300 apartments spring up on the site of the Foresters Hall building, on Great Shaw Street, off Friargate.was granted in February 2022
A design and access statement submitted with the application notes that floor-to-floor heights have an impact on costs – the higher they are, the more expensive a building is to develop. A 150mm reduction in height has been achieved across each storey, meaning the building would be just 30cm taller with the extra floor in place.
Although it started out as a 21-storey development when planning permission was first secured in the summer of 2019, a later rethink saw an attempt to turn Lofthaus into a 30-level block, which would have made it almost 100 metres high – taller even than the 94-metre spire on St Walburge’s Church in the city and the tallest skyscraper in Lancashire. However, Preston City Council indicated that it would have rejected the revised scheme.
Meanwhile, the discovery of a right of way has meant the footprint of the building has had to be shrunk at the lower levels, while an originally-proposed 16 car parking spaces on the lower ground floor have now been scrapped as result of the positioning of sprinkler tanks and air source heat pumps.Sign up below to receive Blog Preston's email newsletter. It wings its way into inboxes every Sunday and Wednesday rounding up our top stories and more.
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