Joint managing directors of Watling, Andrew Foster and Nathan Pask, were appointed receivers over the property earlier this year. West House, on Commercial Street in Morley, Leeds, is described as a “substantial three-storey, former mill building with ancillary rear warehouse” sitting on a 0.24 acre plot.
Full planning for the construction of seven one bedroom and four two bedroom apartments with 10 parking spaces was also granted back in May 2014. James added: “It is our understanding that the purchaser intends to bring forward fresh plans for the property, broadly in line with existing plans, to build it out as a residential redevelopment. “There was strong interest in the property in the end, culminating in robust competitive tension between competing interested parties.