PLANNING | Allied London, Urban & Civic, Select and Bruntwood secure Manchester approvals
Two 36-storey towers at St John’s, offices and homes at Siemens’ Didsbury site, and the latest block at Circle Square were among projects granted planning permission by Manchester City Council today.
APPROVED
St John’s Living towers – Renamed ‘Nickel & Dime’
St John’s Place, left, Nickel & Dime, centre and right
Developer: Allied London
Two 36-storey residential towers
Architect: Denton Corker Marshall
Apartments: 610 apartments
Central Village – Renamed ‘Manchester Goods Yard’
Developer: Allied London
Office, retail, and live/work apartments over 197,000 sq ft
Parking: 465 spaces
Architect: Cartwright Pickard
Siemens site, Princess Road, Didsbury
Developer: Bruntwood
Offices: 23,500 sq ft
Floors: Three
Architect: Sheppard Robson
Homes at Siemens site, Didsbury
Developer: PJ Livesey
Architect: Calderpeel
Apartments: 44
Townhouses: 23
Vita Student, Circle Square, Oxford Road
Developer: Select Property Group
Storeys: 18
Apartments: 384
Architect: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Slate Wharf, Plot G, Castlefield
Storeys: Three
Apartments: 24
Developer: Waterside
Architect: GA Studios
Whitworth Street/Princess Street – Renamed ‘Manchester New Square’
Developer: Urban & Civic
Application amendment: Replacing approved hotel with 111 flats, changing façade material from terracotta to brick
Total apartments now planned on site: 351
Architect: SimpsonHaugh & Partners
Holiday Inn Express, Central Park
Bedrooms: 120
Architect: Leach Rhodes Walker
Amenities: Nursery and drive-thru
Car park: 461 spaces
Nickel and Dime? What is the story behind that?
By Elephant
Nickels and dimes are the same colour…???? A Manchester name please..We are NOT AMERICANS!!!
By Schwyz
What about Jack and Vera?
By Elephant
Nickel & Dime…a diversion from the pedestrian architecture
By Anonymous
Love the Castlefield one. Great design and fits in perfectly with the surrounding buildings.
By David
The hotel at Central Park incorporates a drive-thru nursery?
By Mum of the year
Everything looks great bar plotG cast field!!! What a disgusting building to throw up in such a beautiful area! Architects and developers should be ashamed of selves for such low standard development!
By Danny kelly
In that area Mum of the year,it is more likely to be a Drive-by.
By Elephant
Talk about dropping the kids off!
By Soapy
Vertical PRS ghettos. Miserable boxes for future generations to be trapped in cycles of institutional renting breathing polluted air on the feted vomit puddled streets. Home ownership is to be distant and unobtainable dream.
By Anonymous
Agree with anonymous – these particularly the nickel and dime ones – terrible name, look like those tower blocks near salford shopping city. Now they’ve been given new facades. I do wonder if when there’s another recession in the future and they’re empty they’ll become council flats. Too many people too keen to profit to consider that being a very real reality though.
By Pretty Realist Sceptic
Manchester is going to be incredible.
By AF