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Developer Boultbee Brooks Real Estate has lodged additional applications to trigger the redevelopment of 79 Mosley Street in Manchester into an office-led mixed-use scheme, and expects to start refurbishment early next year.

In 1938 Vincent Harris designed the Manchester Town Hall extension for the municipal trading departments of the city. The Gothic style sat comfortably between Harris’ recently completed Central Library and Waterhouse’s earlier Town Hall, writes Matt Pickering of CallisonRTKL.

Developer Allied London has updated on the progress of restoration works under way at the grade two-listed Manchester fire station, with plans to start on the main conversion phase next year.

Manchester Metropolitan University has revealed designs for a £45m science and engineering campus, set to replace the John Dalton West building next to Mancunian Way, with a planning application due in the New Year.

Kames Property Income Fund has released the first image of a proposed 135,000 sq ft Sheppard Robson-designed office building at 39 Deansgate, ahead of a consultation session next week.

The owner of the 385,000 sq ft leisure complex in Manchester city centre has submitted plans for a £9m refurbishment, the first major investment in the site since it launched 20 years ago.

The grade two-listed former cotton mill on Chester Street near the University of Manchester has undergone a £1m conversion into 8,800 sq ft of offices.

JDA Architects has promoted Tom Kelly and Karen O’Reilly to the board of directors. 

The joint venture behind Manchester’s Great Northern Warehouse has submitted an application to make tweaks to the first phase of the scheme, which received approval in March 2018 and is still awaiting a start on site.