Altay Bayindir: Handled with care before Newport scored and had no chance with the deflected goal. Let down by United defenders for the equaliser. 6
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Plans for the £200m redevelopment of the former Soapworks at Salford Quays - including 450 apartments and a gated commercial hub - have been submitted. They include three towers ranging in height from 10, 17 and 33 storeys which will take shape on land which is currently a car park next to Manchester Ship Canal on an 8.5-acre site.
However, the commercial element of the scheme will be delivered first with vacant commercial building Block D to be converted into 130,000 sqf ft of office space, taking the total on offer at the old Soapworks to 360,000 sq ft. Block D will be nine floors high with a split-level gym and co-working facility. A basement cycle hub will include 245 cycle spaces, 245 lockers, 22 showers and changing facilities.
Full planning permission is sought from Salford city council for this part of plan, while an application for the residential project is ‘outline’ meaning more detailed proposals will come forward later. Some 230,000 sq ft of offices there are currently fully occupied after 25,000 sq ft was let to the Department for Homes, Communities and Levelling Up.
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The scheme will conclude with a 12-storey transport hub located close to the site’s junction with Ordsall Lane, including 900-space multi-storey car park and workspace on the lower floors. Development managers Bankfoot APAM and Catella APAM are working with landowner Greater Manchester Pension Fund to deliver the scheme.
Documents submitted to Salford’s planning portal say the Bankfoot and Catella have undertaken ‘comprehensive consultation and engagement on its vision for land at the former Colgate Palmolive factory off Exchange Quay’. They say leaflets
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Jungle have announced a one-off headlining show at London’s O2 Arena which will take place later this year.The London duo – comprised of Tom McFarland and Josh Lloyd-Watson – will be taking over the famous arena on Thursday, September 12 in support of their fourth LP ‘Volcano‘. Tickets for the show will go on sale on Friday, February 2 10am local time.
The Smile have announced an extra London date on their March 2024 UK tour after phenomenal demand.The Radiohead side project – comprising Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner – announced their UK and European tour back in November, alongside their new album ‘Wall Of Eyes‘.The band are due to kick off the tour at Dublin’s 3Arena on March 7 and play dates in Brighton, Manchester, Glasgow and Birmingham before finishing up with a show at London’s Alexandra Palace on March 23.They’ve now added a second London show at the Eventim Apollo on Sunday, March 10 due to “exceptional demand”.Tickets for the extra show go on sale this Friday (January 26) at 9am GMT from here. Fans can also sign up to the pre-sale here.A post shared by The Smile (@thesmiletheband)MARCH7 – Dublin, 3Arena 10 – London, Eventim Apollo 13 – Copenhagen, K.B. Hallen 15 – Brussels, Forest National 16 – Amsterdam, AFAS Live 18 – Brighton, Brighton Centre 19 – Manchester, O2 Apollo 20 – Glasgow, SEC Armadillo 22 – Birmingham, O2 Academy 23 – London, Alexandra PalaceThe Smile’s second album ‘Wall Of Eyes’ is out Friday, which NME described in four-star review as a “masterclass in pushing rock forward”, adding that it features “some of their best work since ‘In Rainbows'”.It added: “Where previously the comparisons to their Radiohead catalogue could warp expectations, the breadth of the material on offer here suggest that it could, eventually, flip that dynamic right on its head.”Reviewing The Smile live in New York City in 2022, NME described the show as an “expansive and dazzling spectacle”.
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