Council approves spending £1.7million on new cycling route through Ancoats
The plans are much-anticipated after the council chose not to install cycling lanes on Great Ancoats Street as part of a £9.1million upgrade
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Decision on controversial 55-storey tombstone student skyscraper in Manchester city centre deferred again
The developer says it needs to address technical issues with its plans before it can be considered
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The proposed tower viewed from Oxford Street (Image: UGC MEN)
A decision on whether to approve plans for a controversial 55-storey student skyscraper in Manchester city centre have been deferred again. The city’s planning committee was told last week that GMS Parking Limited needed to address ‘technical issues’ within its application, which has provoked strong local opposition.
Councillors had been asked to consider the £130m plans for the tower housing 853 student flats - described by critics as a ‘tombstone’ or ‘caramel wafer’ - in January.
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The city council lost a legal battle over its decision to build a 440-space temporary car park as part of its Central Retail Park masterplan but has said the ruling will not impact the future of its 1m sq ft proposal.
The Trees Not Cars lobby group had challenged Manchester City Council’s 2019 decision to grant itself planning permission to build the car park next to a primary school on part of the 10.5-acre plot on the edge of Ancoats and New Islington, and its founder Gemma Cameron brought a judicial review.
The campaigner successfully argued that the council had failed to consider the impacts of a car park on air quality and pollution levels and volume of traffic in the local area. A total of 12,000 people signed Trees Not Cars’ petition against the plans as the group lobbied for 18 months for the decision to be overturned.
Pub and restaurant roadmap greeted with relief in Manchester, but operators blast terrifying wait for financial support
Now the question remains how businesses will hang on until May - or even later
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Michael Clay of Elnecot in Manchester (Image: Daily Mirror/Andy Stenning)
Pub and restaurant owners in Greater Manchester have finally been given a jot of hope for the future, with the Government outlining potential reopening dates.
Boris Johnson has set out a four-step roadmap out of the current lockdown in England, which would see schools open first before the rest of the economy slowly opens up.
But while hospitality experts have welcomed the Government s gradual approach - which will see five week windows between each step of lockdown easing - they have criticised the terrifying wait for the news of financial support in the meantime.