Manchester’s Changing Skyline

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We had a couple of developers bring schemes in Manchester East (Mayfield area), only to have lenders decline on grounds of it being too much of a regeneration area, and a feeling Manchester could be saturated. These photos in the last few months seem to contradict that opinion. I personally feel it's going to carry on for the foreseeable. Just seen the latest Downing project at First Street - it's on a different scale - £400m and 1.800 units!

Yeah. East Village, not far from Mayfield, seems to be doing well.

Downing Living - First Street

I was a bit concerned by the CGI’s, but I’ve posted pictures of the glass cladding and it looks good, so I’m not overly concerned now.


Funding secured.

Downing secures £227m loan for Manchester cluster - Place North West

A newly-formed partnership between Precede Capital and QuadReal Property Group, supported by Japanese bank Nomura, will fund the construction of a cluster of co-living towers at First Street.

www.placenorthwest.co.uk

Renaker looking for funding for Trinity Islands and Bankside.

Renaker seeks £120m GMCA loan for two towers - Place North West

A 55-storey skyscraper that forms part of the four-tower Trinity Islands cluster and the 444-apartment Bankside in Salford’s Greengate neighbourhood are in line to benefit from public cash.

www.placenorthwest.co.uk

 

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Not exactly related to this thread but a point of interest around it…

Already since the 2021 census, it is estimated that Greater Manchester’s population is 3,028,104.



In the 2021 census, Greater Manchester’s population had increased by 6.9% (185,272) to 2,867,800 in ten years. That was the largest population rise in the country.

Manchester’s population increased by 9.7% (48,800) to 551,900 in that time, Salford’s by 15.4% (36,000) to 269,900.

In 2004, just over 10,000 people lived in the city centre. Now just over 70,000 people do.

And, for me, you can feel all of that. I think we have too much traffic and not enough public transport. I find the roads are too busy even in the through the day outside rush-hours, when twenty years ago I used to find early afternoon comparatively quiet on the roads.

Lots of traffic in the city centre too.

 

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Not exactly related to this thread but a point of interest around it…

Already since the 2021 census, it is estimated that Greater Manchester’s population is 3,028,104.

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In the 2021 census, Greater Manchester’s population had increased by 6.9% (185,272) to 2,867,800 in ten years. That was the largest population rise in the country.

Manchester’s population increased by 9.7% (48,800) to 551,900 in that time, Salford’s by 15.4% (36,000) to 269,900.

In 2004, just over 10,000 people lived in the city centre. Now just over 70,000 people do.

To go up another 18,202 since that last census shows that the increase rate is steady and still in a rocket straight line since 2011.

And, for me, you can feel all of that. I think we have too much traffic and not enough public transport. I find the roads are too busy even in the through the day outside rush-hours, when twenty years ago I used to find early afternoon comparatively quiet on the roads.

Lots of traffic in the city centre too.

Was in town on Sunday before the match. The roads were rammed with vechicles, especially on Great Ancoats Street. The city centre roads are grinding to a halt. They weren’t built for so many vechicles. See the picture below. Traffic on Deansgate.

manchester_skyline - Instagram

 

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The city changed rapidly over the past few years & in all directions.

Had a wander around Greengate over the weekend…wasn’t that long ago this was barren, but it’s now beginning to thrive..

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Was in town on Sunday before the match. The roads were rammed with vechicles, especially on Great Ancoats Street. The city centre roads are grinding to a halt. They weren’t built for so many vechicles. See the picture below. Traffic on Deansgate.

manchester_skyline - Instagram

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The traffic (and it’s fumes) makes the air feel dirty and makes the buildings filthy n’all.

Even new builds haven’t taken long to get dirty. Have a close-up look at those stone buildings built in St Peter’s Square no more than six years ago - proper dirty already. In another decade they’ll be dark in colour.

We have the worst air pollution in the country and have topped the worst for the whole of Europe:

Manchester air pollution briefly tops European table | GC Business Growth Hub

Air quality in Manchester was temporarily the lowest in Western Europe on 8 September, just days before an EU financial watchdog warned that governments were failing to take sufficient action.

www.businessgrowthhub.com

Even during the 2020 lockdowns when barely anyone was out and about, our air pollution was classed as dangerously and illegally high:

Pollution levels in Manchester remain dangerously high despite lockdown, smart air quality sensors show

Headline | ClientEarth

View the press release

www.clientearth.org

And it affects our mortality:

Air pollution linked to 1 in 23 deaths in Greater Manchester

Some 923 deaths in Greater Manchester in 2017 were related to long-term exposure to polluted air, according to research by Centre for Cities.

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

People in Manchester 'exposed to dangerous levels of air pollution' | Greater Manchester | The Guardian

Report finds life expectancy in region reduced by average of six months due to pollution

amp.theguardian.com

 

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If anyone is interested. See my post. #11,145

Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

Vincent Coke - Linkedin Who else thinks that the gas towers near the Etihad should be saved? To me, they are part of Manchester's industrial heritage and also Manchester's Skyline. I photographed Dr Jenna Ashton, she is heading up a project which will see chunks of the gas holders put in...

forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk

 

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The traffic (and it’s fumes) makes the air feel dirty and makes the buildings filthy n’all.

Even new builds haven’t taken long to get dirty. Have a close-up look at those stone buildings built in St Peter’s Square no more than six years ago - proper dirty already. In another decade they’ll be dark in colour.

We have the worst air pollution in the country and have topped the worst for the whole of Europe:

Manchester air pollution briefly tops European table | GC Business Growth Hub

Air quality in Manchester was temporarily the lowest in Western Europe on 8 September, just days before an EU financial watchdog warned that governments were failing to take sufficient action.

www.businessgrowthhub.com

Even during the 2020 lockdowns when barely anyone was out and about, our air pollution was classed as dangerously and illegally high:

Pollution levels in Manchester remain dangerously high despite lockdown, smart air quality sensors show

Headline | ClientEarth

View the press release

www.clientearth.org

And it affects our mortality:

Air pollution linked to 1 in 23 deaths in Greater Manchester

Some 923 deaths in Greater Manchester in 2017 were related to long-term exposure to polluted air, according to research by Centre for Cities.

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

People in Manchester 'exposed to dangerous levels of air pollution' | Greater Manchester | The Guardian

Report finds life expectancy in region reduced by average of six months due to pollution

amp.theguardian.com

Good info it's absolutely shocking. You can taste the fumes around the suburbs aswell.

 

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