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A 拢50m skyscraper planned for Plymouth's waterfront will be the city's tallest building

At 30 storeys the proposed Shepherds Wharf apartment tower would be taller than Beckley Point

CGI shows how the proposed Shepherds Wharf block and tower, far right, would tower over current buildings and the planned Sugar Quay flats, far left(Image: luc design)

A £50m skyscraper has been planned for Plymouth's waterfront as developers start working on plans for the Shepherds Wharf tower.

At 30 storeys high, developers said it would be the tallest building in the Devon city, at seven floors higher than the Beckley Point student flats.

reported plans include a 10-floor rectangular apartment black with the skyscraper next to it. The two residential buildings would comprise 200 flats, with restaurants, shops and commercial space on the ground floor and mezzanine.

Shepherds Wharf is planned for a patch of derelict land at Sutton Harbour next to the two Premier Inn hotels. The company behind the Shepherds Wharf idea, Comcor (Shepherds Wharf) Ltd, has worked with city architects LHC Design on the new plan, and already struck a deal to buy the land, subject to planning approval. It also has the funding in place and said if approval is given construction could start before the end of 2025.

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The site received planning consent for a previous scheme in 2008 but it was never built and the land changed hands several times. Comcor is now working with Plymouth City Council on the new proposal.

Mike Leech, Comcor’s marketing manager, said: “The old planning consent was for 23 storeys. We are going to ask if we can take it to 30 storeys and make it the biggest building in the south of England.”

Amanda Sutherland, director of planning consultancy Sutherland Property and Legal Services Ltd, added: “We have come up with a slightly more modernised approach and looked at other buildings in the locality. We see the lower block receding into the landscape with the tower as a landmark building."