Capital & Centric to turn multi-storey car park into flats

Capital & Centric has submitted plans to redevelop the Midway car park in Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Staffordshire, as a 114-home neighbourhood. The scheme would feature one- and two-bedroom flats with landscaping underneath a three-floor atrium. A social hub with a gym, mini-cinema and lounge is also planned. The 1960s multi-storey car park is the first of three sites being brought forward by Newcastle-Under-Lyme Borough Council, which has attracted more than £35m of investment from the government’s Future High Street Fund and Town Deal Fund. John Moffat, joint managing director at Capital & Centric, said: “The challenge of building on brownfield land is you need to be bold and creative in your approach. “People thought we were mad when we said we wanted to create new homes from a car park but the plans show that it can work and it has actually made for a more interesting and unique neighbourhood.” Simon Tagg, leader of Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council, said: “The ageing and outdated Midway will soon be redundant with the opening of Castle car park and this proposal avoids wasteful demolition and allows new housing to spring up on a prominent town centre brownfield site. “Castle car park will provide a clean, safe car park for the whole town centre. Along with the regeneration of the Ryecroft and York Place with homes, shops and open space, we are beginning to see the visible signs of our multi-million-pound regeneration.”