Hundreds of apartments, rebuilt Victorian offices and student accommodation could be given the green light at Manchester's planning meeting next week. Plans for 485 flats in a 34-storey skyscraper set to tower over the Northern Quarter and Ancoats have been the subject of more than 200 objections.
A 15-storey block with 54 flats between the Northern Quarter and Piccadilly will also be considered by councillors on the planning committee at the meeting. An application to demolish a Grade-II listed building, retaining its original Victorian façade, but replacing the rest with a new six-storey office block, is also on the agenda for the planning committee who will meet at the town hall.
And a controversial 261-bedroom student complex on the site of a former pub in Hulme could be approved despite protests about the plans one year ago. There are nine applications in total on the agenda for the planning committee meeting on Tuesday, May 31 – the first set to be held since the local elections.
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