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The City Council Planning Committee made the decision to reject two cohabitation projects at the center, the massive Organization of First Street in Downing and the time of the Water Street towers in Vita.
The Downing project, designed through the SimpsonHaugh architects, includes a 45-story, 3-block smaller tower and would provide more than 2,000 beds. The Vita project, a 32-story tower designed through Denton Corker Marshall and in the St John’s district of developer Allied London, would provide 1,600 beds.
Deloitte Real Estate is the representative of the elaboration of plans for any of the projects.
Both projects did not get the committee’s approval last month (Downing was postponed pending a stopover while Vita was willing to refuse) and did not return this week as the councillors expressed considerations on the concept of coexistence and the heyday of developments.
Manchester City Council planning chief Dave Roscoe tried unsuccessfully to describe the benefits of the projects, specifically on the First Street site, which said it was essential to unlock the long-term progression of dominance and the opportunity to re-develop a site. that had been left empty for many. Years.
In July, Vita received consent for a 36-story housing block, the first such progression in the city center, but this time the smaller block refused.
In an internal report published in December, Manchester City Council expressed its considerations on coexistence and said that the progression of such programmes will be “limited” until the concept is fully proven on the market.
“It is advised that coexistence should only be based on a very limited number of locations, in limited quantities, in the urban area and in express circumstances,” according to the report of former Strategic Director of Progression and Progression of The City Council, Eddie Smith, told me.