Thackeray Group, working carefully with actual property advisors, Savills, and John Wotton Architects, has secured planning permission for a 52 mattress apart-hotel, a floor flooring café and refurbishment of the Grade II listed Market Chambers at 5-7 St Mary St.
Constructed in 1886 by entrepreneur, Solomon Andrews, the constructing is a notable instance of Victorian industrial structure, with Cadw describing the frontage as ‘probably the most formidable industrial frontages of mid-Victorian Cardiff, by its most formidable entrepreneur’.
The scheme, which can restore and repurpose an under-utilised constructing, represents additional funding from Thackeray in Cardiff metropolis centre. The positioning sits in between Thackeray Group’s lately opened Flight Membership and Howells masterplan scheme.
Giles Hoare, Funding Director at Thackeray Group stated:
“Our funding and confidence in Cardiff goes from energy to energy and the Market Chambers apart-hotel consent is one other instance of this. The scheme will restore one other vital heritage asset and assist obtain the Council’s wider imaginative and prescient alongside St Mary Road. It was a pleasure working alongside Cardiff Council on one other collaborative mission.”
Annamaria Sgueglia, Senior Planner at Savills Planning, commented:
“The scheme breathes recent life right into a beforehand under-used industrial constructing and can ship a gorgeous tourism providing that’s sympathetic to its architectural significance whereas supporting the optimistic regeneration of the broader space.’
