Echo Street From Piccadilly

Echo Street co-living proposals in for council consideration

A planning application has been submitted for what is being described as the UK’s “first purpose-built co-living development”, totalling 900 bedrooms for students and young professionals to rent near Manchester Piccadilly train station.

The designs for IQ Student Accommodation’s three-block scheme at Echo Street next to Vimto Gardens have evolved since they were first revealed in August. Architect Sheppard Robson’s first iteration showed a distinctive metal wrap passing over and between the concrete buildings, and this wrap has now been removed, replaced with red brick and white sandstone intended to be more in keeping with the surrounding area.

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