Unite’s 30-storey Manchester tower set for approval
Proposals to create more than 1,500 apartments across four-high-profile Manchester schemes are on the verge of securing the green light, including plans for an eye-catching 30-storey tower just off Oxford Road.
Manchester City Council’s planning committee will meet on Thursday, 19 October 2017 to discuss a host of major residential schemes.
One of the schemes is a full planning application by Unite Students to build a 30-storey tower comprising four distinct stacked segments, creating a twisted appearance, at 1-5 New Wakefield Street near the junction between Oxford Road and Whitworth Street West. There would be 573 student apartments in total, with 70 cluster flats of between five and ten beds and 56 studios …