Salford Star readers have been in touch, stating they have been `spammed' with emails by the `Buy Association' promising "high-end riverside apartments in Manchester"comprised of "580 stunning apartments, set against the River Irwell's picturesque waterfront", with `assured completion due August 2016'.
Meanwhile, the Knight Knox website is claiming that 30% of the flats on sale in its Phase One are already `sold out'. However, the proposed development hasn't even been passed by Salford City Council's planning panel yet – which has the power to reject the application.
A video on the Adelphi Wharf page of the Knight Knox International website states that its `buy to let properties' are `designed to appeal to the investor market', adding that `the potential to earn a high return on a property is greater now than at the height of the boom'. And never mind affordable housing, the video explains that its blocks are `specifically designed to attract the best paying tenants'...
With Phase One already `30% sold out' and the `best paying tenants' being lined up to fill the flats, Knight Knox should find it difficult to argue that the scheme won't be `viable' if it has to pay fees when its planning application does eventually come before Salford Council's planning panel.
The last twelve months have seen a procession of developers pleading poverty; that their schemes for thousands of apartments wouldn't be `viable' if they had to paySection 106 planning obligations for things like open space, infrastructure and construction training; or if they had to provide affordable housing in line with Council policy.
The Council's Assistant Mayor for Planning recently called the practice "a public scandal of immense proportions", while rightly blaming the ConDem Government's National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) "that has seen Eric Pickles rig the planning regulations in order to deprive, to rob, local communities of its essential investment in order to line the pockets of landowners and developers"
The proposed Adelphi Wharf development is on the same site as the ill fated Foundry Wharf scheme for a 27 storey apartment tower which imploded in 2010, leaving the site derelict. The planning permission for that scheme was granted in 2007, under the lastLabour Government, without any need to provide affordable housing. The only Section 106 agreement appeared to be for a `riverside walkway' enhancing the value of the developer's own project
Meanwhile, the `X1 Media City, Manchester' development still appears to have no planning permission, or Section 106 agreement or affordable housing in place, despite continuing to market its flats.
Does anyone know which firm of Insolvency Practitioners are proposing the CVA on Empirical Property Group aka Fresh Start aka Affordable Property Group (their latest name?)
Freshstart Living, Empirical Property Group and Affordable Property Group -
Are all linked to CEO Charlie Cunningham and Director Phil Wright. They have a history of buying up student 'pod'
accommodation, doing a minimal renovation, spending next to nothing on maintenance and health and safety, selling the leaseholds on the pods on the back of 2 or 3 year guaranteed rents that they don't honour, selling the freehold and moving on to their next great scam.
Many, many people are in litigation with Freshstart and it's associated companies.
From personal experience my advice is do not invest with them and avoid like the plague.
They were based in Swinton, Manchester but the latest info. is that they are in central Manchester under the name Empirical Property Group OR Affordable Property Group.
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Salford Star readers have been in touch, stating they have been `spammed' with emails by the `Buy Association' promising "high-end riverside apartments in Manchester"comprised of "580 stunning apartments, set against the River Irwell's picturesque waterfront", with `assured completion due August 2016'.
Meanwhile, the Knight Knox website is claiming that 30% of the flats on sale in its Phase One are already `sold out'. However, the proposed development hasn't even been passed by Salford City Council's planning panel yet – which has the power to reject the application.
A video on the Adelphi Wharf page of the Knight Knox International website states that its `buy to let properties' are `designed to appeal to the investor market', adding that `the potential to earn a high return on a property is greater now than at the height of the boom'. And never mind affordable housing, the video explains that its blocks are `specifically designed to attract the best paying tenants'...
With Phase One already `30% sold out' and the `best paying tenants' being lined up to fill the flats, Knight Knox should find it difficult to argue that the scheme won't be `viable' if it has to pay fees when its planning application does eventually come before Salford Council's planning panel.
The last twelve months have seen a procession of developers pleading poverty; that their schemes for thousands of apartments wouldn't be `viable' if they had to paySection 106 planning obligations for things like open space, infrastructure and construction training; or if they had to provide affordable housing in line with Council policy.
The Council's Assistant Mayor for Planning recently called the practice "a public scandal of immense proportions", while rightly blaming the ConDem Government's National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) "that has seen Eric Pickles rig the planning regulations in order to deprive, to rob, local communities of its essential investment in order to line the pockets of landowners and developers"
The proposed Adelphi Wharf development is on the same site as the ill fated Foundry Wharf scheme for a 27 storey apartment tower which imploded in 2010, leaving the site derelict. The planning permission for that scheme was granted in 2007, under the lastLabour Government, without any need to provide affordable housing. The only Section 106 agreement appeared to be for a `riverside walkway' enhancing the value of the developer's own project
Meanwhile, the `X1 Media City, Manchester' development still appears to have no planning permission, or Section 106 agreement or affordable housing in place, despite continuing to market its flats.
Does anyone know which firm of Insolvency Practitioners are proposing the CVA on Empirical Property Group aka Fresh Start aka Affordable Property Group (their latest name?)
Freshstart Living, Empirical Property Group and Affordable Property Group -
Are all linked to CEO Charlie Cunningham and Director Phil Wright. They have a history of buying up student 'pod'
accommodation, doing a minimal renovation, spending next to nothing on maintenance and health and safety, selling the leaseholds on the pods on the back of 2 or 3 year guaranteed rents that they don't honour, selling the freehold and moving on to their next great scam.
Many, many people are in litigation with Freshstart and it's associated companies.
From personal experience my advice is do not invest with them and avoid like the plague.
They were based in Swinton, Manchester but the latest info. is that they are in central Manchester under the name Empirical Property Group OR Affordable Property Group.