PLANNING | Approval for Bridge Street office, city centre flats
Plans from developer Vision for a 43,000 sq ft office to be built next to Manchester Hall have been granted planning permission despite objections from John Rylands Library, while smaller residential schemes in the city have also been approved.
The projects were signed-off at the Manchester City Council planning committee on Thursday 1 June.
APPROVED
44-48 Bridge Street
Developer: Vision
Architect: AHR
Offices: 43,700 sq ft
Height: Eight storeys
23 New Mount Street
Developer: Capital New Mount
Scheme: Office-to-resi conversion
Flats: 59
Architect: Axis
3-5 St John Street
Developer: JR Properties, sister company of Richer Sounds
Architect: Cartwright & Gross
Scheme: Office-to-resi conversion, roof extension
Flats: 12
Planner: Euan Kellie Property Solutions
Land North of Melland Road Playing Fields, Gorton
Developer: Great Places Housing Group
Homes: 131
Architect: Nicol Thomas
Infill sites like Melland Road are so important. Hopefully Great Places have a decent scheme lined up for the site that will help improve perceptions and functioning of the neighbourhood.
By Place maker
what’s changing at St John Street?
By .
The Bridge Street development is a shocker, but seems par for the course nowadays.
By Loganberry
@By – couple of floors being added to the existing Richer Sounds building
By HSR
I disagree with you Loganberry, but maybe that’s northern England for you, were things better in the past?
By Hewitt