Relentless takes stake in 50-storey Manchester skyscraper site
Gary Neville’s development business has acquired shares in the company behind rejected plans to redevelop the Stocktons furniture showroom off Great Ancoats Street.
As of 20 May, Relentless Developments directors Neville and Anthony Kilbride are listed as directors of Liquid Business (Manchester), a company set up by serial entrepreneur Daniel Green in 2022.
Green remains majority shareholder and a director of the company, which issued more than £7m in new shares on the day of Neville and Kilbride’s appointment, according to Companies House. Relentless Investments (SS), a vehicle set up by Neville and Kilbride last year, is listed on Companies House as having significant control of the company.
Relentless, whose involvement in the Stocktons project was first reported by Place North West earlier this year, has some work to do to secure approval for the site’s redevelopment and smooth the ground with locals.
Manchester City Council’s planning committee rejected plans for a 50-storey residential skyscraper with 750 flats on the site rejected in January due to concerns about its scale. A strategic regeneration framework for the area states that building heights should not exceed 45 storeys.
The scheme, designed by SimpsonHaugh Architects, also features plans for 45,000 sq ft of office space.
Local councillors said the company behind the project had failed to meaningfully engage with residents during the planning process. Meanwhile, concerns about the tower’s impact on daylight for residents in the neighbouring Oxygen Tower endure.
Relentless was approached for comment.
Relentless is rapidly amassing a pipeline of projects in Manchester after completing and filling No1 St Michael’s, an office building off Jacksons Row.
In recent months, the company has added several sites in the St Mary’s Parsonage regeneration zone to its portfolio and is progressing plans for those sites under the Kendals District banner.
As part of that district, Relentless is working with Investec on the latter’s long-held ambition to convert the Kendal Milne building on Deansgate into offices. The scheme received a £44m cash injection from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s Good Growth Fund last year.
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Fantastic to see. Their St Michael’s project is sensational – it’s great to have some relief from dated checkerboard monotony on a Manchester skyscraper. I’m hopeful that Relentless will use more imaginative architects for this rather than dated practices
By Anonymous
I’m sure Comrade Neville will seek out the very best Marxist architects to fulfill his champagne socialist agenda.
By Anon
I agree that St Michael’s is a great scheme. It looks amazing from all viewpoints.
By Elephant
Love him or loathe him, you cant deny Neville isnt becoming a major player in Manchester development world. St Michaels as a debut development is superb and he appears to be amassing quite the pipeline.
By Mr Mcr
@Anon, I imagine you’re a reform voter?
By Tony
I think Gary Neville is more Groucho Marx than Karl Marx. A really good fullback and so far a good developer but he’s far from a left wing revolutionary, that’s more Ryan Giggs territory.
By Anonymous
Interesting how any tricky site is attracting Gary Neville and his ability to persuade the Council / GMCA to back him. Why? Because he’s a football / pundit who does development too. MCC have to get past the star struck nature of the relationship and deal in the real world!
By Anonymous
That’s one ugly building
By Anonymous
Tony, I imagine you’re a Labour voter. See? Equally irrelevant to the article or anything for that matter..just like Labour. St Michaels is nice though.
By Anonymous
Neville spends a few hours a week on his property company and yet has the Council and GMCA wrapped around his little finger. Watch this get waved through and allocated a big slug of Neville funding. Investec pulled a master stroke by getting him on as DM on Kendals. Let’s hope MCC and others treat them as they do any developer……I’ll be pleasantly surprised if this happens!
By Anonymous
That building looks utterly repulsive. Can’t think why on earth its planning permission was rejected 😮
By Andy
What an awful looking scheme
By Lilly 56
Let’s hope they discard the original design and get something decent in its place.
By Anonymous
The rejection in the first place was all political. Local councillors trying to hold on to their NIMBY voters
By Anonymous
‘All political’..blah blah blah. Everything someone doesn’t like is ‘all political’ 😂
By Anonymous
June 04, 2026 at 10:22 am By Anonymous: I agree with you “That is just Politics” is American ideology that has infiltrated our culture. To talk as if our lives our communities, our society is one thing; and Politics is something else, is an over-simplification; dumbing-down. Otherwise we might as well have fascism, where a self-selected group decides “politics” things. Coming to your cinema soon? The way we organize Place, Construction Projects, Buildings is necessarils “Politics”, or should it be a Private Matter only?
By Anonymous