Reef Group has been given the go-ahead to bring forward the next stage of development of the King’s Quarter in Gloucester.
The group has been granted permission to demolish Bruton Way NCP car park and Grosvenor House, a 1970s office block in the city centre, and replace them with a mixed-use scheme comprising two blocks. One will contain commercial, business and service space, a hotel and multi-storey car park, and the other will be a purely commercial building.
Reef Group said the £107m scheme, known as The Forum, would create a new gateway quarter to the city providing a mixed-use workplace-led scheme incorporating office, hotel, shops, gym, restaurant, car park and cycle parking facilities and would “set a new benchmark for sustainable development within Gloucester with future-proofed accommodation to provide an enduring legacy for the city”.
The council-owned land was identified as its number one regeneration priority in its Economic and Regeneration Strategy 2016-2021. Stanhope was appointed in 2012 to bring forward a retail-led project but never submitted an application.
Avison Young is advising on planning.
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