Waverley Residences
Howard Street, Rotherham town centre
Waverley Residences at dusk — the former Technical College, Rotherham
Residential · separate scheme · South Yorkshire

A landmark in the centre of Rotherham, re-made into 72 homes.

Waverley Residences is the conversion of the former Technical College on Howard Street into 72 individually-titled apartments — straight residential stock in a South Yorkshire town centre, sold separately from the Keystone care portfolio.

72
apartments
250-yr
leasehold title
Town centre
Howard Street
6 miles
to Sheffield
The asset

A standing landmark — not a hole in the ground.

A standing landmark — the former Technical College — re-purposed to 72 individually-titled apartments in Rotherham town centre. Straight residential stock, sold separately from the Keystone care portfolio. Conventional C3 use, individual 250-year titles, and the widest buyer and exit pool of any asset class — a conversion of a building that already stands, rather than ground-up construction.

Why the demand is there

Sheffield city-region demand, Rotherham prices.

Six miles from Sheffield on the UK's first tram-train line, up the road from the Advanced Manufacturing Park where Boeing and McLaren build, and a town centre being remade around Forge Island.

265,800
people in Rotherham borough (Census 2021)

A full borough of demand on the doorstep, inside South Yorkshire's 1.4 million — and modern town-centre apartment stock remains scarce.

6 miles
to Sheffield — on the UK's first tram-train

The Sheffield–Rotherham tram-train, the UK's first, has linked the town centre to Sheffield's jobs, universities and nightlife since 2018 — commuter renting runs in both directions.

60,000+
students across Sheffield's two universities

The University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam anchor one of the UK's biggest student cities next door — their graduates feed the city-region's rental market every year.

AMP
Boeing, McLaren and Rolls-Royce build in Rotherham

The Advanced Manufacturing Park at Waverley — grown around the University of Sheffield's AMRC — hosts Boeing's European fabrication plant, McLaren's composites centre and Rolls-Royce: an engineering employment base minutes from the centre.

Forge Island
the town centre's riverside leisure quarter — open

Rotherham's Forge Island — cinema, hotel and restaurants on the river Don — opened in 2024 as the anchor of the council's town-centre masterplan.

72
apartments in the landmark Howard Building

Outline application PP-14831603 (49 units) sits alongside the 23-unit permitted-development scheme RB2026/0232 — 72 individually-titled apartments a short walk from Rotherham Central station.

Figures are third-party market data from published sources (ONS Census 2021, AMP/AMRC tenant announcements, Rotherham Council's Forge Island programme) — not Keystone projections. Planning references are on the public register; the outline application remains subject to determination.

The setting

Rotherham & the city region

Indicative apartment interior — Waverley Residences
Forge Island riverside leisure quarter, Rotherham
The Sheffield–Rotherham tram-train
Advanced Manufacturing Park, Waverley
Rotherham Minster, town centre
Sheffield city centre, six miles away
How it is bought

Individually titled, independently valued, properly held.

  • Independent RICS Red Book valuation per unit before any price is shared
  • Deposits held in an SRA-regulated stakeholder / escrow account
  • Promoted only to certified qualified investor categories under s.21 FSMA
  • Identity and source-of-funds (AML) checks on every buyer — run on every reservation
  • Your certification, declarations and what you were shown are recorded and retained

Indicative pricing and yields are shared with certified qualified investors on registration — they are not published on this page. Self-contained residential apartments cannot be held in a SIPP or SSAS and are never positioned for pensions.

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