Plans in for £450m Manchester life sciences masterplan
Kadans, McLaren, Property Alliance Group, and Moda Living have submitted proposals for the redevelopment of 7.5 acres off Upper Brook Street featuring 700,000 sq ft of lab space and almost 2,000 student bedrooms.
Two separate applications have been submitted, one by Alliance and Moda for 470,000 sq ft of life sciences accommodation and 1,100 student beds and one by Kadans Science Partner and McLaren for 215,000 sq ft of labs and 740 PBSA units.
Manchester City Council is also due to sign off a land deal to pave the way for part of the scheme.
Alliance and Moda
Credit: via consultation documents
Planning reference: 137401/FO/2023
Life sciences architect: Hawkins\Brown
PBSA architect: SimpsonHaugh
Planner: Avison Young
Landscape architect: Reform
Alliance plans to develop 470,000 sq ft of life sciences accommodation on its portion of the Upper Brook Street masterplan, which comprises the former Williams garages.
The lab and office space would be spread across three buildings ranging from eight to 12 storeys.
Meanwhile, Moda Living will deliver around 1,100 student accommodation units in a 41-storey tower in partnership with Alliance on the northernmost portion of the site.
The student beds are the first to come forward from Moda Living’s 4,000-bed student accommodation pipeline, announced last week.
Moda’s student scheme, located on the northernmost part of the site, will provide the masterplan’s tallest building.
WSP, Turley, Curtins, Ridge, Focus Transport, and Design Fire are also involved in the scheme.
McLaren and Kadans
Credit: via consultation documents
Planning reference: 137399/FO/2023
Architect: Sheppard Robson
Planner: Avison Young
Landscape architect: Reform
McLaren Property wants to deliver 737 student beds within a 23-storey building on the site of the former Citroen garage on Upper Brook Street.
Kadans, which recently won approval for Europe’s largest life sciences campus at Canary Wharf, is planning to develop a 215,000 sq ft lab complex on the site of Elizabeth Yarwood Court. The building would comprise eight floors, with its ground floor set to feature a startup incubator space.
Will Fogden, senior development manager at Kadans, said “It’s an exciting milestone that the application is validated. The Manchester science & technology market continues to grow substantially, and we look forward to showcasing our vision which will be a benchmark for much-needed technical real estate.”
With plans for the life sciences scheme now submitted, the city council is preparing to dispose of land on Upper Brook Street to pave the way for part of the scheme.
Manchester City Council is planning to sign off the sale of Elizabeth Yarwood Court to life sciences operator and developer Kadans.
The site was previously earmarked for residential development as part of the Brunswick Housing Private Finance Initiative but was withdrawn in 2021 as the city council looked to facilitate regeneration along the Oxford Road Corridor.
Landscape studio Reform is advising on the development’s public realm, which amounts to three acres and includes two public squares.
To learn more about how the life sciences sector is growing in the North West, book to attend Place North West’s Labs of the Future event.
