Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

The ERF covers the area from Great Ancoats Street up to and beyond the Etihad campus and was refreshed as recently as 2017. However, the council said that such has been the pace of change and increased interest in the area, with 15 years of employment growth set to be delivered in half that expected timeframe, a further update is required. Manchester’s executive meets on Wednesday to consider the report.

The most notable item included is that the potential for a 20,000-plus capacity indoor arena to be developed at the Etihad campus. The report states that “international investors and operators see Manchester as one of the few cities in Europe with the ability to successfully host more than one large arena”.

These investors, it said, are evaluating locations and developing business case proposals head of revealing detailed proposals later this year – a development that could bring with it hotel and further leisure uses.

As well as cashing on the concert market, the development of such a flexible indoor space would give the city more weight in bidding for a range of sporting events, which would sit well with the long-term plan to get sporting governing bodies to locate at the campus – the Rugby Football League’s move being a case in point.

The report also outlines how the city is continuing to work with Manchester Metropolitan University and other partners to develop the Manchester Institute for Sport, a higher education institution that would be the main element of a sports-tech cluster the council hopes to see flourish in the area. Up to 1,000 student bed spaces could be developed close to the Institute, the report said.

With Ancoats developments such as Express Building and Stubbs Mills proving successful, the city is also keen to set a policy context where planning will support the development of commercial development heading eastwards: New Islington and Holt Town are described as being places where new opportunities for commercial floorspace should be explored, along with Ancoats itself: the Central Retail Park site on Great Ancoats Street is described as “the most significant development opportunity”.

The report also describes MXM, a development of up to 200,000 sq ft of flexible workspace being advanced by General Projects in the Pollard Street area.

In terms of housing, the ambition to take further the joint working with the Abu Dhabi United Group is obvious and the area represents a clear opportunity to bring forward a high volume of the affordable homes that Manchester requires. Riverpark Road, Beswick, New Islington and Miles Platting are all mapped out as areas prime for the development of new affordable housing.

The boundary of the framework area remains the same, with two additions: the 19.7-acre Riverpark Trading Estate, formerly Manchester Abattoir, a site in single ownership where an outline consent has recently lapsed, and the Eccleshall Street site, bound by Ashton New Road, the Ashton Canal, Clayton Lane and Crabtree Lane – the council has significant ownerships here and is adding the area into the Clayton Housing Affordability Zone.
 
LEXSTARproject said:
The ERF covers the area from Great Ancoats Street up to and beyond the Etihad campus and was refreshed as recently as 2017. However, the council said that such has been the pace of change and increased interest in the area, with 15 years of employment growth set to be delivered in half that expected timeframe, a further update is required. Manchester’s executive meets on Wednesday to consider the report.

The most notable item included is that the potential for a 20,000-plus capacity indoor arena to be developed at the Etihad campus. The report states that “international investors and operators see Manchester as one of the few cities in Europe with the ability to successfully host more than one large arena”.

These investors, it said, are evaluating locations and developing business case proposals head of revealing detailed proposals later this year – a development that could bring with it hotel and further leisure uses.

As well as cashing on the concert market, the development of such a flexible indoor space would give the city more weight in bidding for a range of sporting events, which would sit well with the long-term plan to get sporting governing bodies to locate at the campus – the Rugby Football League’s move being a case in point.

The report also outlines how the city is continuing to work with Manchester Metropolitan University and other partners to develop the Manchester Institute for Sport, a higher education institution that would be the main element of a sports-tech cluster the council hopes to see flourish in the area. Up to 1,000 student bed spaces could be developed close to the Institute, the report said.

With Ancoats developments such as Express Building and Stubbs Mills proving successful, the city is also keen to set a policy context where planning will support the development of commercial development heading eastwards: New Islington and Holt Town are described as being places where new opportunities for commercial floorspace should be explored, along with Ancoats itself: the Central Retail Park site on Great Ancoats Street is described as “the most significant development opportunity”.

The report also describes MXM, a development of up to 200,000 sq ft of flexible workspace being advanced by General Projects in the Pollard Street area.

In terms of housing, the ambition to take further the joint working with the Abu Dhabi United Group is obvious and the area represents a clear opportunity to bring forward a high volume of the affordable homes that Manchester requires. Riverpark Road, Beswick, New Islington and Miles Platting are all mapped out as areas prime for the development of new affordable housing.

The boundary of the framework area remains the same, with two additions: the 19.7-acre Riverpark Trading Estate, formerly Manchester Abattoir, a site in single ownership where an outline consent has recently lapsed, and the Eccleshall Street site, bound by Ashton New Road, the Ashton Canal, Clayton Lane and Crabtree Lane – the council has significant ownerships here and is adding the area into the Clayton Housing Affordability Zone.
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Sounds like you know yer stuff lad. But do you know why Tony's Chippy is never open on match days?
 
I think a lot of stuff isn’t communicated properly either with regards to public transport. It’s hard enough for locals but for people from further afield it must put them off. Things like car park info, tram info is sometimes tricky to decipher. I’ve tried more than once to google info about a phantom bus that goes from Bury to The Etihad for every home game; I even see people stood, as if waiting for it, near The Beehive and The Bluebell, but I can never find info on it!! Does it exist?! We’d catch it I think.
 
dips66 said:
Always thought Ashton moss would be an ideal park n ride location, already has lots of parking, plus bars n restaurants to complement the new ones to be opened at the etihad.
Plus there’s lots more space available to build extra car parks if needed.
Metro link goes through it too and the train track at side of the campus also travels past Ashton moss so wouldn’t be a huge undertaking to get a couple of stations at either end.
Ashton moss also links to the m60 both ways so is an ideal way of quickly getting away from the stadium area.
So, large car parking space with easy motorway access, potential for two transport links to the campus and additional food.n drink destinations to help spread the time frame to get away from ground after matches/gigs
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Ashton tram was a nightmare on way back today. There was a rear end collision, looked like a Kia ran into the back of a Mercedes. Merc minimal damage Kia a write off.

Police and fire engine maybe had problems getting there, traffic backed up through Droylsden cutting tram off from getting through lights which is bad at the best of times.

It would be difficult to increase the number of trams to Ashton after the game due to the Droylsden traffic issue post match in any case.
 
Just 2 tickets available for Brighton at home via the ticket exchange. We now need the expansion more than we needed it when we expanded the South Stand. The sell outs for CL games against lower opposition are as big an indicator as any since we weren’t often filling the original capacity for such games back when we first expanded.
 
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In terms of housing, the ambition to take further the joint working with the Abu Dhabi United Group is obvious and the area represents a clear opportunity to bring forward a high volume of the affordable homes that Manchester requires. Riverpark Road, Beswick, New Islington and Miles Platting are all mapped out as areas prime for the development of new affordable housing.

Shhh Miggy thinks this is housewashing.

Perhaps City are interested in the Mercedes site but the owners may be being money grabbing whores and asking for exorbitant money - it wouldn't be the 1st time, remember our red friends in areas where the academy site is. Not sure but didn't the council agree a compulsory purchase order in the end at less than City had already offered.
 
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