Renaker’s £370m twin towers tipped to progress 

One of Manchester’s most active developers is seeking consent for almost 1,000 homes across a pair of 51-storey skyscrapers on Plot F within the Great Jackson Street masterplan. 

Designed by SimpsonHaugh, Renaker’s latest tower project features 988 one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments. 

Both towers feature chamfered edges, incrementally increasing and decreasing every five storeys, creating a dynamic vertical movement up the tower, according to the developer. 

The project has an estimated GVA of £370m. It will cost around £329m to build, based on a predicted developer’s margin of 10.98%, according to Renaker’s viability appraisal. 

Deloitte Real Estate is the planning consultant and TPM Landscape is the landscape architect. 

If Manchester City Council approves the scheme in line with officers’ recommendations next week, the Plot F project would take the total number of Renaker’s completed or pipeline skyscrapers within the masterplan to nine. 

The scheme is located close to the four-tower, 1,500-apartment Deansgate Square, which is complete.  

Also nearby are Blade and Three60, which, once finished, will provide 855 homes across another pair of 51-storey skyscrapers. 

Elizabeth Tower offers an additional 484 flats and completed earlier this year. 

Elsewhere in Manchester, Renaker is also behind plans for the four-tower Trinity Islands cluster approved earlier this year. This scheme will provide almost 2,000 apartments. 

In Salford, the developer is bringing forward Colliers Yard as part of a three-tower masterplan in the city’s Greengate quarter. 

Interested in learning more about this project? The application’s reference number with Manchester City Council is 132199/FO/2021.