Mayfield momentum builds as £359m resi tipped for sign-off
With work on the first offices at the Manchester regeneration scheme finally underway as of last week, the city council is expected to give the green light for the first residential phase next week.
- The project will be determined at Manchester City Council’s July planning committee meeting. Read the full report.
Landsec wants to build 879 homes within four buildings, including towers reaching 23 and 28 storeys.
The scheme, co-designed by shedkm and Studio Egret West, would be delivered in two phases on a four-acre plot immediately east of the Republic, the 315,000 sq ft office block that Bowmer + Kirkland broke ground on last week.
The residential scheme and the first office will also see the size of Mayfield Park increase, according to Landsec.
According to a viability appraisal accompanying the application, the scheme has a gross development value of £359m and would cost £253m to build.
The appraisal states the project is “unviable” but that Landsec’s long-term approach means the scheme is deliverable.
The scheme will aim to deliver 20% affordable housing “should suitable grant funding become available”.
Deloitte is the planner. The professional team includes cost consultant Arcadis, WSP, Buro Happold, Gerald Eve, Pager Power, Civic Engineers, Civic Earth, Civic Heritage and heritage architecture advisor Stephen Levrant.
To learn more about the project, search for reference number 141788/FO/2024 on Manchester City Council’s planning portal.
Genuine question – with the gross development value of £359m and development costs of £253m, how is that taken to be unviable?
By Clouded Leopard
Mayfield has been going on since the days when Piccadilly gardens was nice. I mean come on..before the sun becomes a red giant and burns us all to a cinder.
By Anonymous
Blimey. Don’t tempt fate though! 😉
By Tom
Good to see that grey is not the dominant colour . Hurray !
By Anonymous
A beautiful park, first in mcr for over a century. We could make it huge for the tens of thousands of residents and visitors but instead we’ll make it the size of a railway platform and surround it with really unique flats and offices. surely the people designing these buildings recognise this? the flats would look lovely 100 yards in any direction if the park was extended. Mcr you’re better than this
By Goal87
10:41 pm By Goal87 – The park is a decent size, and will extend with the office & residential phases. What the park needs is buildings around it to attract more people to use it. Critical for the sake of critical here. This is a good scheme.
By Anonymous
Another brick in the Mayfield wall. How many years have they been developing this now?
By Elephant
4:35 July 23rd, 2025 Clouded Leopard – there is no mention of unviability, most if not all planning applications require a viability report to confirm if the proposed scheme is viable for delivery. This ensures that councils are approving developments which can actually be delivered by developers. The “Viability” is stated in the fact that the cost does not exceed the value.
By Anon
Thankful it is not another Renaker clone !
By Anonymous
Would be nice if they didn’t bother wasting any time or money pandering to office dinosaurs and make it all housing but other than that, fine.
By Anthony
Looks awful
By Anonymous
Office dinosaurs..or workers as they’re actually known in the real world ! I’d love to actually live on Fantasy Island too but for now this’ll do nicely 😎
By Mr Roarke