Manchester’s Changing Skyline

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Gleenbrook - Instagram.

We’ve been touring our Glenbrook sites this week, including a trip to Lumina Village in Trafford

This major scheme will see the creation of 639 homes on the 12-acre former Kellogg’s site in Trafford Council’s Civic Quarter.

£250m mixed-use project set to be given Green Light - Northmade

Trafford Council is set to green light the residential element of the £250m mixed-use project when the authority’s planning committee meets next week. Totalling 639 homes, the project is part of the wider redevelopment of the 12-acre former Kellogg’s site,…Read more

northmadestudio.com

 

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They better not touch the toast rack!

The Toast Rack is in a very poor state. But it looks as if it can still be redeveloped.

Put Toast Rack into Youtube search. There are plenty of videos from inside it and and via drones.

 

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The Toast Rack is in a very poor state. But it looks as if it can still be redeveloped.

Put Toast Rack into Youtube search. There are plenty of videos from inside it and and via drones.

I used to live in Longsight, about 10 mins walk from the rack. Shame to hear about it having seen better days. It's an iconic building. To me, anyway. Memories of a happy childhood. Isn't it a listed building? Is Manchester Grammar School still there? We lived on Birch Hall Lane, about 50 yards from the main gates.

 

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I used to live in Longsight, about 10 mins walk from the rack. Shame to hear about it having seen better days. It's an iconic building. To me, anyway. Memories of a happy childhood. Isn't it a listed building? Is Manchester Grammar School still there? We lived on Birch Hall Lane, about 50 yards from the main gates.

It’s listed.(corrected)
Manchester Grammar School is still there.

The Toast Rack was put up for sale in June 2023.

Estrela Properties is looking to offload the listed Modernist building, which sits at the centre of a 3.7-acre site awaiting redevelopment.
The Toast Rack building itself, sold to Estrela by Manchester Metropolitan University for £5m in 2014, would be converted into apartments.

Buyer sought for Manchester’s iconic Toast Rack - Place North West

Estrela Properties is looking to offload the listed Modernist building, which sits at the centre of a 3.7-acre site awaiting redevelopment.

www.placenorthwest.co.uk

Real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield has been instructed by its current owner, an overseas private investor, to sell the unique asset along with adjacent buildings.

https://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/united-kingdom/news/2023/06/manchester-toast-rack-building-sale

Located in Fallowfield, Manchester’s student district, the 3.71-acre site comprises the Toast Rack, Horseshoe, Gateway site and Stitching Hall. The current owner is looking to sell the entire site which already has detailed planning consent for extensive future development.

The Toast Rack - Ollier Smurthwaite Architects

SECTOR: Housing DESCRIPTION: Extension and conversion of listed modernist building & new build apartments, Manchester VALUE: Confidential STATUS: Planning The Toast Rack, Hollings Campus, Fallowfield The development site incorporates the former Manchester Metropolitan University Hollings...

www.olliersmurthwaite.com

 

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It’s not listed.
Manchester Grammar School is still there.

The Toast Rack was put up for sale in June 2023.

Estrela Properties is looking to offload the listed Modernist building, which sits at the centre of a 3.7-acre site awaiting redevelopment.
The Toast Rack building itself, sold to Estrela by Manchester Metropolitan University for £5m in 2014, would be converted into apartments.

Buyer sought for Manchester’s iconic Toast Rack - Place North West

Estrela Properties is looking to offload the listed Modernist building, which sits at the centre of a 3.7-acre site awaiting redevelopment.

www.placenorthwest.co.uk

Real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield has been instructed by its current owner, an overseas private investor, to sell the unique asset along with adjacent buildings.

https://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/united-kingdom/news/2023/06/manchester-toast-rack-building-sale

Located in Fallowfield, Manchester’s student district, the 3.71-acre site comprises the Toast Rack, Horseshoe, Gateway site and Stitching Hall. The current owner is looking to sell the entire site which already has detailed planning consent for extensive future development.

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The Toast Rack - Ollier Smurthwaite Architects

SECTOR: Housing DESCRIPTION: Extension and conversion of listed modernist building & new build apartments, Manchester VALUE: Confidential STATUS: Planning The Toast Rack, Hollings Campus, Fallowfield The development site incorporates the former Manchester Metropolitan University Hollings...

www.olliersmurthwaite.com

According to Wiki, it was grade 2 listed in April 1998 by English Heritage.....

Toast Rack (building) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

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According to Wiki, it was grade 2 listed in April 1998 by English Heritage.....

Toast Rack (building) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Ah, OK.

I couldn’t find that info, so I incorrectly thought it wasn’t listed.

Good digging. :-)

 

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Cameron Loukas - Linkedin

 

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From the One Port Street site.

Select Property.

 

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North Manchester Mental Health Hospital

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - Linkedin

We’ve just received new drone images of our North View development!

Follow the progress of our new state-of-the-art mental health inpatient unit on the North Manchester General Hospital site here: