Manchester set to approve Renaker’s £741m Trinity Islands

Haters will hate but this is 2000 more homes going on what is currently a surface car park. And with it being Renaker it will actually get built and on time with quality materials. Which is more than can be said for a certain other Manchester developers, who we all know who they are.

2000 homes. Who for? More transport, more doctors etc required.

‘Wow!’, I must say. As someone who lives in the area, this is fantastic to see and I hope it doesn’t stop there in this area, where a further 4 or 5 towers could easily be built.

There is potential for the units on New Elm Road to be knocked down, with easily enough room for 2 towers to be built in their place (granted the Soccer in the City would have to relocate).

Furthermore, there is an empty plot next to the Big Yellow Self Storage centre, primed and ready for a tower to be built on.

Perhaps somewhat more optimistically, but by no means impossible is knocking down the current Campanile Hotel and replacing it with a big tower, possibly retaining the hotel at the bottom and flats at the top (similar to the Beetham Tower with the Hilton), and also relocating the Porcelanosa up the road to one of the empty units on the Regent Retail Park and building a tower in that space.

Lets go big in this area!

I saw the picture and thought it was a picture of Deansgate Square. That’s how bland and repetitive these Simpson Haugh glass towers have become : D

I remember the original design a few years back with sky bridges and I wish that could have been build but I imagine it was unfeasible due to the costs. I like this proposal but I wish every building was a 150m proper skyscraper.

Also, why is every parking space not EV equipped? They’ll have to be eventually when all new cars are electric post 2035 so how on earth is it not mandatory to make every parking space EV equipped now?

What heights are these? will the tallest be taller than Deansgate Square’s biggest?

Starting 2022 completing 2026 and 2031, slow by Renaker standards; it’d be good to see them slow down and focus on quality in my opinion, I think their hastiness starting to show in their other builds, I see them ageing incredibly poorly.

I could probably be negative about some of the details, like the cladding, but i think the proposals are way better than nothing and a lot better than what most other UK cities are getting. Overall I think it’s a very positive development to look forward to.

Good news

You’ve got to love the comment “the positive impacts the scheme would have on the city’s housing supply”.

For who?

Wait, what happened to this cone of development. This is completely out of scale here. Surely not the right place for them, even the name hints at the issue here. Madness
If this was anyone else but Simpson, it would be denied

Re: who are these homes for?
We, the people, we come from everywhere and will drive this great city forward

Don’t understand people complaining about housing supply in this market.

It’s impossible for a lot of people to buy, especially in the centre.

These are good quality tall buildings and give a reall character to the area.

These towers have the wow factor when entering Manchester but I wish they would do something with the hinterlands and street level areas of these buildings, the area around Deansgate Square still looks like a shanty town.

Absolutely fantastic. But it’s time Manchester got a 250m statement skyscraper. This possibly would’ve been the ideal place for it.

bland and unimaginative.

Happy with the density and concept but the two shorter towers aren’t a great design in terms of external aesthetics, which is a shame as they’re being built first, they’d look better with some stone or brick and without the dated checkerboard cladding.

Other thing is given that fossil fuel cars are going to banned, why aren’t the parking spaces 100% EV enabled? Why only 20% EV, they’ll have to be retrofitted at great expense soon after the buildings have been built.

As someone who has lived around this area for 20 plus years I say – get them built! Can you imagine what our Manchester skyline will look like in 10 years time? They’ll be nowhere like it outside of London…and this is coming from a scouser!

I understand Manchester’s approach and it’s working but these are more filler than killer. Can they start cracking on with the proper Manc architecture soon please.

Is £741m the cost or GDV? At £380k average per apartment- wow!

Well said Stuart at 12.08 today. Manchester should be an aspirational city where people want to live and work. The housing market was for too long in the doldrums and stand out developments will attract people to come and bring wealth into the City. As other people who regularly comment on this site have stated I just wish there were more unique landmark buildings.

Shouldn’t been allowed, Deansgate Square has become close to unliveable, it’s an absolute nightmare

To help facilitate informed discussion of the relative merits of developments, I believe it would add value if articles like this incuded reference to embodied carbon and energy use intensity. These are important metrics and arguably more so than the percentage of EV charging.

Only enough parking spaces for 1/4 of the flats. That’s not enough.

As other commenters have asked: who is this housing for?

Do 55 and 60 storey tower blocks help to create the kind of communities and neighbourhoods we want to build? Or are these simply units for investors? Disturbing that planning officers have stated the towers will have a positive impact on the skyline- is this the kind of impression we want to make?

Building apartments would definitely play a huge part in elevating pressure on housing in manchester but there is a mid point between a detached house and a 50 storey glass tower block that the council could be promoting instead of these projects.

This latest rendering of Trinity Islands site lacks the wow factor of the original designs, I think originally the tallest tower was 67 floors but what was unique about it was that the top of the towers emitted lots of led light.As someone already mentioned there was also connection between the towers with ‘sky bridges’,but the costs were probably prohibitive. It would be nice to see a tower going up of 70/80 floors and with a ‘killa’ design.

Regent rd works will be rendered redundant by this

What a great scheme and bringing dead brownfield land back in to use to provide homes, jobs and council tax income. Can we have them taller please by another 10 plus storeys

Have been waiting for these for a long time. Pity one of them couldn’t have broken the current 200m record but maybe next time. The renders seen before show rather more detail which looks good

Wow, when they get started on the Blade and Cylinder across the way at Deansgate square along with all those others that have been approved there and Greengates, that’s going to be a lot of height in the city centre.

I think it’s fantastic that Manchester is changing the look of the city centre and transforming it to look like a city centre with all these buildings.

Not only will it help increase the economy and the jobs with all the investors around but bring in many different people.

Just a shame that the skyscrapers aren’t even taller as they would love absolutely amazing and add a very wow factor. Still looking forward for this and can’t wait for it to be done.

One thing Manchester does need to do is fix the deans gate area and fix up some of the old edge there and slowly make them look nicer to help cooperate with the deans gate square so it has a proper nicer look which would bring in even more people.

All for density but with development of this scale has to be chance to do much more at ground level and change streets. Towers with entrance ‘landscaping’ surrounded by the same old tarmac?

Fantastic news, this only makes our city bigger and better creating more growth and opportunities.
Plus Renaker are by far the best developer around, their build quality is great, no corners will be cut.

£106k off site affordable housing contribution on a scheme with a GDV of £745 million?! Come on MCC surely you can do better than that…..

Nearly 2000 flats and less than 600 parking spaces. Genius. Apart from the obvious, what about multi-vehicle families?
I’m not against the plans as long as full payments are made to the council to provide all the extra infrastructure required, from roads to schools and a meaningful number of truly affordable properties available to rent by the local community.

Has it ever occurred to these parking space naysayers that maybe MCC is trying to encourage more people to use public transport? Cornbrook transport is a 10 min walk (max) away from here, there are multiple bus stops in the area and Manchester City Centre itself is only a short walk away! These same people will moan about the amount of traffic and pollution there is. Insufferable!

Absolutely fabulous. Every time I come back North more is being built!

1950 apartments, only 566 car parking spaces of which only 20% will be EV charging points. Sounds like folly to me.