Refresh planned for Northern Quarter adult shops
The former Big in Amsterdam and Love Boutique outlets on Manchester’s Tib Street are to be pulled down and replaced with a three-and-a-half-storey building featuring retail and leisure space, under plans lodged with the city council.
Landlord Lau Yuk has submitted plans to redevelop the site of 78-80 Tib Street – next to Tib Street Tavern – for the second time. The scheme would feature a restaurant unit on the ground floor, retail space on the first and second, and flexible pop-up space on the third, have been tabled.
The existing building, which has been vacant for some time, has fallen into disrepair. It is described in planning documents as “dilapidated” and “open to the elements” given the failure of parts of the roof.
In 2023 plans for a similar development were rejected after the city council concluded the project would negatively impact residents living in the Oldham Street building that backs onto the site and that its design was “poor quality…and incongruous”.
Lee Evans Partnership is advising on the proposals. To learn more, search for reference number 144881/FO/2026 on Manchester City Council’s planning portal.
looks like a tasteful addition that respects the surroundings. glad they didnt try and squeeze a tower in there
By Anonymous
That looks like a polite addition.
By nice
That looks very good and appropriate….nice to see a building that doesn.t shout “look at me”….
By anonymous
Nice to see a proposal of fitting scale.
Infuriating to see developers use their own neglect as the reason for demolition. If the building is ‘dilapidated’ and ‘open to the elements’, that is the owners fault; you own it, so you are the one responsible for maintaining it.
By Anonymous
One that Gary Neville missed.
By Francis
Awesome
By Anonymous