PLANNING | Approval for MMU teaching block
An academic block on the site of the former Mabel Tylecote Building within Manchester Metropolitan University’s Oxford Road estate has been granted consent, alongside schemes from Manchester Life and Belgravia.
APPROVED
Manchester Metropolitan University Arts & Media Building
Developer: Manchester Metropolitan University
Architect: Allies & Morrison
Scheme: 96,000 sq ft mixed-use facility on the site of the former Mabel Tylecote Building, currently being demolished
Height: Nine storeys
Vesta Street
Developer: Manchester Life
Architect: Raphael Vinoly Architects
Scheme: Manchester Life’s seventh scheme in Ancoats/New Islington, sits between Old Mill Street and the Ashton Canal
Flats: 155 apartments, 16 houses
Height: Seven to nine storeys
Eider House, Ducie Street
Developer: Belgravia Living
Architect: Cartwright Pickard Architects
Scheme: PRS project that marks the second phase of Belgravia’s Piccadilly Basin scheme
Flats: 128
Height: eight to 10 storeys
Mangle Street, Northern Quarter
Developer: Three Popes
Architect: Stephenson Studio
Scheme: Permission is sought to create a new building on this vacant brownfield site at the junction of Mangle Street and Back Piccadilly, to be linked internally to the listed Finlay’s Warehouse, Dale Street
Flats: 14
Height: eight storeys
What an awful selection of buildings.
By .
Blandness is the “new build”
By Rosie York
Awful stuff! These architects in sure are capable of far better! Plus where’s the social housing. So uninspired
By Annoyed
Erm, they haven’t yet been built.
By York Street
Mangle street is the only half decent building here, but it’s nothing spectacular.
Vesta Street is absolutely vile.
By Aaron
Vesta street really is something else… How could this be approved?
By Anonymous
Vesta Street. Another vile creation by Manchester Life! They are like the residential development branch of Brittania Hotels!
By David
I’ve seen cardboard boxes with more character. Manchester council should be hanging their heads in shame, but they’d need the ability to feel shame to do that.
By Ham Shank