Altitude

We listed some of the Altitude apartments for rental just had our first look inside the building on the old Balfours site in the North West precinct of the city. A few years ago Buchan Lee sold a portion of the area which housed all of the company's distinctive blue vans in between deliveries of their yummy pies, pasties and famous frog cakes. Our friends at Urban Edge acquired it and developed part of the site with townhouses and divided land into blocks for buyers to build their own townhouses.

Another developer has recently completed the 18 storey Altitude building, which is the first in a series of towers planned for the site. The inspiration was the towers of San Gimignano in Italy - a "pin-wheel" design was used with the lifts ascending through the centre of the tower and apartments radiating from the central point maximising the views for all apartments. The glass bottomed swimming pool on the sixth floor protrudes from the structure over the courtyard below, which should make for exciting swimming! It was not quite ready when we visited, but we will bring you photos as soon as we have access.