A nine-storey block of luxury apartments overlooking Castle Park will have to be stripped back and all its insulation and brickwork replaced because surveys have found flammable cladding was used when it was built.
Castle Wharf is in a prominent position on the corner of Finzel’s Reach and part of the major mid-2010s development that saw almost 400 flats, shops, offices and a micro-brewery created from the former dock warehouse buildings that are opposite Castle Park.
The nine-storey building was one of the new build blocks constructed in and around the former warehouse, brewery and factory buildings, with two-bed flats now on the market there for £375,000 to buy or £1,840 a month to rent. People who have bought 120 year leases on their flats have to pay around £3,550 a year in service charges and ground rent of around £335 a year.
