New 35-storey tower gets OK

September 17, 2007

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A 35-STOREY development at Piccadilly has won planning permission in a decision which experts say opens the way to more skyscrapers in Manchester.

Lancashire-based developer Time & Tide has won planning permission for a 35-storey tower on a site at Store Street, to be called Gravity, with 330 apartments, new shops on the ground floor, and the same height as the CIS tower near Victoria railway station.

Alongside the tower will be a six-storey block, which the developers see as an important link between Piccadilly and the east.

Gary Halman, of HOW Planning Consultants, who advised Time & Tide, said: "This decision means the city council is happy with more landmark buildings in Manchester."

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The Right to Reply (18/09/2007 at 10:15)

why not? Piccadilly especially the hotel is a an eye sore! so anything is better

Login, Manchester (18/09/2007 at 10:59)

Its a smart development this and it'll do wonders to draw out the city centre towards Ancoats, bridging the gap between the two.

I look forward to it.

The Catcher, In The Rye (18/09/2007 at 11:28)

"it'll do wonders to draw out the city centre towards Ancoats, bridging the gap between the two".

Ha! The city centre used to be Piccadilly. It has moved down to Deansgate since the bomb and the demise of C&A, Lewis's etc. The desolation left in the north of the city from the unplanned, un-thought through move down Market Street was re-named the Northern Quarter to give the impression there had originally been a plan.

I say blitz the, hahum, Northern Quarter and build all new skyscrapers, then Manchester will truly be a 21st century city - sadly still run by 19th century idiots.

Login, Manchester (18/09/2007 at 14:14)

erm. yes, I know.

The site is off Great Ancoats street, at Millbank Street, to the east of Piccadilly village. This was never a centre for shopping.

I reiterate my statement about bridging the gap between the city centre and Ancoats.

(ha!)

spiggy_nodules, Moss Side (18/09/2007 at 15:15)

The more high-rent apartments we construct in the city centre, the more council tax we get from rich Mancunians... and the stronger our "intellectual infrastructure" becomes as local graduates decide to stay here to do business, and as incoming rich people arrive to do their business, too.

I can't afford a Manchester central penthouse! But it's still all good news for me.
Visit any city of 3m people anywhere in the world; they got their skyscrapers! Some of them are offices; some of them are residential. And the residential ones are good for their local restaurants, cleaing ladies, all sorts of little businesses.

So let's not bother with "but this does not do any good for Gorton"; it does.

Allotment lad (18/09/2007 at 18:17)

Did this 'Gravity' tower used to be called the Inacity tower? Or is that a different one? And when are all these towers going to be built - there seems to be a new one announced every month but only one has been built so far. What happened to the one on Aytoun Street on the old job centre site?

Octavius Tinsworth Ace (18/09/2007 at 20:45)

Spiggy_nodules, your username may be daft but your logic is spot on.

Allotment lad, this is quite separate from the 58-storey Inacity tower which is allegedly due to start construction in January.

Alex Parkes (19/09/2007 at 01:12)

Did you know that the UK's second city of Birmingham is building an outrageous 200m Vetiplex Tower which will be the tallest building outside of London? A 35-storey tower in Manchester will be a laughing stock in Birmingham!

Octavius Tinsworth Ace (19/09/2007 at 11:36)

Why do Brummies always feel the need to bang on about "second city, second city"? Does it point to a severe inferiority complex? I think it does.

Pob Warby (20/09/2007 at 11:02)

Actually Alex, Manc is building a 188m 'proper' tower, not a novelty viewing platform with a 70ft pole stuck on top!

Sounds like something that belongs in Blackpool!

Now I wonder which city will be the laughing stock then?

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