Uni of Manchester to relocate Fallowfield service hub
The Limes building, which houses the campus’s catering and facilities management functions, needs to be moved ahead of the £400m redevelopment of the Owens Park complex
The University of Manchester has lodged plans for a 20,000 sq ft service building that will provide a new home for the departments, described as a “critical infrastructure component for the campus’ operations”.
The reprovided facility will occupy 1.3 acres of the Richmond Park car park, north of the existing site.
The Limes building is in line to be demolished as part of plans to redevelop the site and deliver 3,300 new student bedspaces – a 900-unit increase on the current provision.
Buttress Architects is leading on design and Turley is advising on planning. Hydrock now Stantec and RLB are also advising.
To learn more, search for reference number 141536/FO/2024 on Manchester City Council’s planning portal.
Viridis, a JV between Equitix, Graham Construction, and Derwent FM was been selected as the preferred bidder for the redevelopment of the Owens Park campus in Fallowfield earlier this year.
And they are going to build it at the bottom of my garden! Very unhappy with this decision when you consider all of the other places on site they could have built it. But nobody cares about the residents.
By Redshaw Close Resident
Redshaw – if they didn’t build it at the bottom of your garden they’d have built it at the bottom of someone else’s garden instead!
By Anonymous