Dan Whelan
The developer behind the controversial residential scheme on Thomas Street in Manchester’s Northern Quarter has won approval to start work on site to prevent its extant planning consent from expiring while an appeal is ongoing.
Real Estate Investment Partnership applied last month to vary the wording of certain conditions of the consent to pave the way for work to start, while the developer awaits the outcome of an appeal against the refusal of plans to demolish listed buildings on the Northern Quarter site.
REIP director Simon Gallendars said: “We have undertaken some limited works to implement the extant planning permission on the site granted in 2017 in order to save that consent in perpetuity.