Jarrolds and Norwich City Council have sold a significant residential development site to Crest Nicholson (Eastern) Limited, part of Crest Nicholson PLC. The sale was agreed through Savills Norwich.

The site, located in the Whitefriars area of the city, forms part of the comprehensive redevelopment of the former Jarrold Printing site into a new professional quarter for Norwich which will incorporate offices, a hotel and residential. The part of the site which has been sold borders Barrack Street and has outline planning permission for 200 residential properties of which 60 should be affordable housing to be taken over and managed by a nominated housing association.

Crest Nicholson anticipate submitting a planning application for the design of the residential area by April 2008 with a view to commencing work by the end of 2008. It is expected that the construction of the 200 properties will take three years.

The picture below is for illustration only and shows how the buildings might look.