Peel starts Pomona Island consultation

Be great to see some leisure attraction which makes use of the water and land to. Maybe a small museum playing homage to the docks which could have a few boats moored as attractions to.

That will finally kill the history of castlefield off.. care ..”beds”.. hotel rooms.. student cubes.. not really high quality.. how many people wanting care beds want to be on Pomona island?

Wow this is what Manchester needs for sure And I wish they made both towers even taller and alos add one more tower pls

Giant skyscraper fan is getting to much with the tallness but I also think this area needs another tower aswell

Boring, bland, predictable, and over developed from Peel Holdings.
9 midrise apartment blocks, one after another, side on, facing the water, absolutely dreadful.
And to think, Peel Holdings and their Architects have a once in a lifetime opportunity to deliver something special for Pomona, and they will fail miserably doing that.
peel. Go around Europe and look at the fantastic waterfront architecture and buildings in Scandinavia, Germany, Holland, Etc.

Must. Do. Better. And agree, must also go taller.

Where do the childer play?

Pomona sounds posh so these flats should attract investors. The area used to be called Strawberry Fields. How English! How common!

2 bed townhouses with roof terrace and outside space!

this is what manchester needs a luxury island with tall buildings more like this could elavate the city

Spell check would have been fantastic. Theor map mentions the infamous TV & Broadcasting hub of “Medica City”

Manchester Waters eh!!
Won’t take Peel so long to get that up.

Needs a foot bridge to Salford.

Festival gardens in Liverpool is also going to have a significant chunk of “care” offerings..what is this new obsession.. surely they should be promoting young employed for the heart of the city?
…andd social housing should mean supply for those who work but not on high paye wages

Such a missed opportunity, for the love of God, Whittaker get Tim groom in, do some decent public realm, try to leave a legacy rather than a scarred landscape

How is X1’s Manchester Waters complete?? Anyone who goes past there on the tram everyday can tell that X1 just got to a certain point and went, “Yeah, that’ll do I suppose”. There was meant to be 5 towers and there’s 3 and the last one has been left completely without landscaping, looking out onto a litter strewn disused building site. Not exactly ‘complete’ is it?

They won’t build town houses or anything of that ilk as they won’t get the yield. They want to pile em high and get the profit from the land sale for the actual developer they sell it to.

Pomona Island could be something great, but if the existing blocks there are anything to go by, this will be absolutely dreadful. Peel need to do better.

I don’t think the buildings are high enough. Manchester must have higher buildings in fact the highest. I repeat we want the highest because they look best on television.

Build the tallest of the high rise centrally please. Shorter height buildings to radiate out from them. The shortest on the perimeter. Everyone mostly gets a good view and pools of daylight.

Pleeeeeease can we have anyone but Peel developing this. Capital & Centric, Renaker, Salboy – all a million times better at development, urban regeneration and placemaking than Peel, whose architecture and designs look fresh out of 2005. This is a significant opportunity for Manchester – you only have to look at what Peel has already developed on the island to see that they really do not recognise or even care what a massive opportunity this site is for the city and region.

Just like i said its should go taller i also think this area has lots of potenetial,the island looks like a mini manhattan island and it could be the canary wharf of the north it would be a combination of manhattan island and canary wharf but we will have to make lots of tall skyscrapers taller than 150m and 200m if we want this to happen the taller the better as long as they are good designs and not boring ones like simpson haugh

Another reason this should be better is that we need a proper grid roud layout not wriggly roads because we need the type of roads they have in canary wharf and its should also be a luxury tower and a office skyscraper i think its about time,i also agree with anonymous at 11:44 am too, i also think manchester needs to start building buildings higher than 150m not more below 150ms and Tom also said its should be a much better development and swe should also remove the blocks behind the two tower because they look hideous and instead place another tower and a pier there

what Giant skyscraper fan is abosolutely right and i think peel needs to look at this messages from the entire section, peel please listen to us this is what will help the city alot.

Giant skyscraper fan,there is also the new man united stadium getting built and is by foster + partnetrs world class architects and i think we need an architect at that level and i also think they should design a supertall skyscraper in manchester if they ever get one because unlike most uk cities manchester has no height avilation which gives us more rights to do so

This should have been all park in fact Whittaker Park his legacy, letting Peel build a few extra floors on other developments to compensate if they wouldn’t do it!

Disappointing from Jon Matthews and Peel but not surprising.

Pants , utter pants!

A footbridge linking Cornbrook tram stop and Ordsall is a must!

Agree with this comment by D: “A footbridge linking Cornbrook tram stop and Ordsall is a must!” The council should have this as a mandatory inclusion.

I thought Pomona Island was a bird sanctuary green space?

Give it to Tim Groom instead

Should’ve turned it into a world class public space park thats on the same level as Central park in NY. all this tiny flats and barely any proper public spaces in the city ughhh

How will the care beds and student bed operate. Will there be any affordable housing?

Build a bridge!

I agree with giant skyscraper fun, we need a Canary Wharf of the north. Salford quays unfortunately isn’t it. We got one shot to do it properly, it should be a destination which attracts, large and small businesses, professionals, families and tourists. It should be a premier area like Canary Wharf. A destination when people come Manchester they go to visit it and area for the locals to enjoy too!

Parking provision for new developments is greatly insufficient and has proved to cause a costly problem for Wirral Borough Council, who have had to take drastic measures to prevent surrounding roads to become obstructed.

Saeed indeed this is our last chance to make a run for a world class city asides from London I think this Development should be built around big waterfront luxury skyscrapers I front near the tower, it can also have a business area like canary wharf but this is a great opportunity to make a statement for the city, But instead of curly road lines u should add the type of roads in NYC To make it look more balanced

The tram line from media city to Salford crescent might never be build, even if it is its in a queue behind other developments and the 1st of them the east didsbury to Stockport tram extension is only starting to be built in 2030, so if it is built it might not be in our lifetime. So build a footbridge linking Cornbrook tram stop and Ordsall, be quicker and cheaper than the tram extension.

Totally agree with the other comments. More green space and statement talls instead.

Give it a rest Peel

35 storeys?! Pah! That barely midsize in Manchester these days. If you’re going to go that route make ‘em interesting…different ..but good different. Why go for average when you could excel.

Very disappointing. This site needs architects with the stature of Foster and Partners or Zaha Hadid architects. Manchester already has too many buscuit boxes. To be credible on the world stage Manchester needs architects recognized around the world. Choosing Foster and Partners for Stretford Man United stadium is a great choice.