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22.06.2023 - 07:27 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Major plans to build new offices and a car park next to Manchester’s newest city centre park have been changed.
Mayfield Park opened last year as the city’s latest green space, but was intended to be the first project in a multi-year plan to completely transform the former industrial wasteland. Planning permission to construct the park was granted in February 2020, along with the go-ahead to build two offices and a multi-storey car park.
However, bosses at the Mayfield Partnership — a joint public-private venture developing the area — say the pandemic has caused them to rethink the offices and car park. Now, they are submitting new plans for the site, which includes an ‘extensively modified’ multi-storey, and ‘more sustainable’ office block.
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The 320,000 sq ft of office space will be spread across two new buildings. One is called The Poulton, designed by Bennetts Associates — with the other known as The Republic, designed by Morris+Company.
An additional three acres of public spaces will extend Mayfield Park to the surrounding buildings contributing new landscaped areas, additional tree-planting, ecology, and rain gardens. Ecology also appears to be the thinking behind the reworked car park.
What was going to be purely a multi-storey will now be a multi-use facility, featuring one of the city’s biggest, single-site cycle parking for over 400 bicycles, plus cafes and event space.
However, there will still be hundreds of parking spaces. The first version of the plans included 581 car park spaces, compared to 487 now, with around half of those electric vehicle points.
Laura Percy, Development Director at LandsecU+I believes the changes will
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