The Mancunian Way: Crane your neck
26.04.2024 - 11:01
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
For more than 40 years the CIS Tower stood in glorious isolation as Manchester’s tallest building. But in the last five years alone 10 skyscrapers have been built that dwarf the Co-op’s modernist masterpiece.
And with the city’s high-rise mania showing no sign of slowing down any time soon, developers are at it again. In today’s Mancunian Way we’ll take a look at plans for a new 76 storey tower block in the heart of the city which, if approved, will become not only the tallest in Manchester, but also among the tallest residential buildings in Europe.
Elsewhere we’ll hear the tragic tale of Charlie Millers, a 17-year-old trans boy from Stretford who died after he was found unresponsive in his room in a mental health unit, as his mum calls for an inquiry into the NHS trust charged with his care.
We’ll also get the latest from Co-op Live as the fall-out from the disastrous opening week continues, and we’ll visit a hidden gem Filipino cafe tucked away in a Victorian market hall.
Manchester’s skyline looks set to expand ever upwards with a bid to build the latest, and tallest, of a cluster of skyscrapers unveiled in the last decade. Salboy, the developer co-owned by Betfred's Fred Done, has revealed plans for a new 241m tower off Great Bridgewater Street, near Deansgate.
It would house almost 800 one and two-bedroom apartments and include a smaller, 23-storey block of apartments, which the developer says would include 133 'affordable' one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments - plus a two-storey commercial building.
Salboy's Simon Ismail has previously said it was going to be ‘the landmark of Manchester’, adding: "We purposefully wanted to go for the tallest residential building in Europe... it's a flagship building.” Stephen