Clegg’s £46m Sheffield flats: Gateway 2 approval lessons for project teams
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Clegg Construction has secured Building Safety Regulator Gateway 2 approval for a £46m, 12-storey concrete-frame build-to-rent block with 267 apartments on Nursery Street, Sheffield, for Liverpool-based developer Brickland. The approval confirms the high-rise design, led by architect Hadfield Cawkwell Davidson with Ridge as built environment consultant and Futurserv for MEP, satisfies the new higher-risk building regime, allowing enabling works to start this month. For contractors and designers, it shows full BSR scrutiny is now a practical gateway for similar multi-storey residential schemes.
Technical Brief
- Design Fire Services is appointed, indicating a dedicated fire strategy and code-compliance workstream.
- Project team includes Egan Lucocq as project manager and quantity surveyor, centralising cost–risk control.
- Ridge acts as built environment consultant, likely coordinating safety-critical interfaces between architecture, structure and MEP.
- Futurserv’s MEP role will need to align penetrations, smoke control and services routing with BSR-approved layouts.
Our Take
Gateway 2’s 12-storey, 267-unit scale puts it at the larger end of the build-to-rent schemes in our UK Infrastructure coverage, signalling that mid-sized regional cities like Sheffield are now attracting schemes comparable to those previously concentrated in core metropolitan centres.
Clegg Construction’s track record with The Ironworks in Sheffield, Spinners Yard in Leeds and Gilders Yard in Birmingham suggests it is building a regional portfolio of concrete-frame residential blocks, which can give it procurement and delivery advantages on repeatable structural and façade solutions under the post-Grenfell safety regime.
With the Building Safety Regulator explicitly referenced and the scheme tagged under both ‘Standard/Guideline’ and ‘Safety’, Gateway 2 is likely to be an early test case in our database for how new high-rise residential safety requirements are being interpreted on regional projects outside London.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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