Medical centre to open at Renaker’s Elizabeth Tower 

NHS Property Services has signed a 250-year lease on 8,000 sq ft within the 52-storey Manchester skyscraper.

Renaker’s Elizabeth tower completed at the beginning of the year and provides 484 apartments.  

A condition of the planning approval for the project, granted in 2018, required the developer to offer up space for a medical centre.  

The facility, located across the ground and first floors at Elizabeth Tower, could open by 2023.  The medical centre is to be funded with the help of a £2.6m grant from Manchester City Council, according to the authority’s register of key decisions.

Avison Young advised the NHS on the deal. 

Frank Convery, principal within the specialist primary health care team at Avison Young, said: “The Great Jackson Street development will be home to some of the city’s most spacious, high-quality homes.  

“It’s therefore fitting that the Elizabeth Tower is also going to be home to advanced primary health and care services at the heart of the community.” 

As well as a medical centre, Renaker’s Great Jackson Street neighbourhood will also feature a primary school as the developer aims to provide amenities to cater for the growing number of residents in the area. 

So far, more than 2,000 homes have been delivered and another 1,800 are under construction or in the pipeline. 

Plans for the primary school, the first in 20 years located within Manchester’s inner ring road, were approved in June.