£30million Quadrant Wharf development completed
THE latest phase in the transformation of Plymouth’s former docks has been completed with work wrapped up on the £30million Quadrant Wharf development.
The 137-home development has apartments split across two buildings – Aqua House and Lye House – and 20 split-level houses making up Canola Row.
The Quadrant Wharf development continues the multiaward-winning, mixed-use regeneration of former docklands at Millbay, delivered by The English Cities Fund (ECF) – a strategic joint venture between national urban regenerator,
Muse Developments, Legal and General, and Homes England – in partnership with Plymouth City Council.
Work began on Quadrant Wharf in October 2017, but it is only one part of an overarching redevelopment of that part of the city’s waterfront, which has seen more than £120million of a planned £250million invested in the area already.
The newly completed phase sits next to Quadrant Quay, the 102-home block built by Kier for ECF and completed in 2015.
But work on the entire scheme began in 2006, with ECF taking a phased approach to delivering the scheme, as a long-term regeneration partner for Plymouth.
To date, the development has delivered more than 550 new homes including the prominent Cargo block , 43,000sq ft of business and retail space, improved infrastructure and refurbished listed docksides, new public realm, a 1,000-pupil school recently renamed Millbay Academy, the 171-berth King Point Marina, and the Dock Restaurant.
Still planned or under construction are 400 more homes, a 126-bed hotel, 80-home extra care facility and more commercial space, all planned to follow in the next five years.
Quadrant Wharf contains two six-storey blocks of flats and a row of a la mode town-houses. Construction firm GallifordTry Partnerships was hired to deliver the Aqua House and Lye House blocks, and Canola Row.
Duncan Cumberland, residential development director for ECF, said: “This is an important step forward for Millbay and also for Plymouth as we continue to lead the regeneration of this key part of the city’s waterfront and deliver what is fast becoming a vibrant and diverse community here.”