Manchester Life progresses latest Ancoats project
The joint venture between the city council and Abu Dhabi United wants to redevelop a site off Jersey Street into 190 apartments.
A consultation has been launched on Manchester Life’s latest Ancoats project, known as Jersey Wharf.
The scheme will see two eight-storey blocks created on a site next to the Northern Group’s Flint Glass Works.
As well as 190 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, the project would feature 6,000 sq ft of commercial space and a residents garden fronting the Rochdale Canal.
Jersey Wharf would be developed opposite another of Manchester Life’s pipeline developments, Eliza Yard.
Plans for Eliza Yard, a 118-apartment scheme, were approved by Manchester City Council last year.
Also nearby are Manchester Life’s Downley Drive, a 68-home scheme on the opposite side of the canal, and the Ancoats Mobility Hub.
PRP is the architect behind the scheme.
Why do only those people lucky enough to live in an end property get the benefit of a balcony?
Again this appears to be a case of the LPA or an individual within the planning department allowing their own individual aesthetic preferences dictate the specification of apartments. This is unacceptable. When you’re living in the confines of a flat, you should expect access to private outdoor space as standard. Balconies should be the norm and not the exception to the norm. There is nothing in any planning policy that I know of that prohibits their inclusion.
By Balcony watch
Manchester Life seem to have the worst designs. The apartments on the CGI (grey – now built) are of really poor quality. Unfortunately the council has wrecked New Islington. The marina looks fantastic but the architectural quality of everything new is poor.
By 1981
Its a bit boring.
By A. Netherlands
As boring and uninspiring as the rest of the Manchester Life buildings.
By ConstructionHawk
Ancoats ..changing so much and in my lifetime…staggered down Jersey st in my teens dozens of times great place fantastic people
By James Swindells
Not good enough for Ancoats.
By Anonymous
Completely agree – there’s no excuse for every apartment in this building not to have balconies.
By Tom H
Not learnt much from covid that people really need outside spaces, surely all your strategies should join together more.
By Anonymous
Needs balconies, council should require it.
By Anonymous