Manchester Metropolitan Area

[User001]

A small section of what the Manchester Skyline will look like in 2021, thanks to 'VDB' off SSC

 

[Aviador]

Originally Posted by User001

Looks very much like Broadcasting Tower in Leeds:

Credit: 3chordboy Wikimedia

 

[Dobbo]

Here's another render of the Circle Square project, which is primarily an office development.

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[David_itl]

Diagonally opposite from where i work. Cant see the construction anymore as our building has got scaffolding and sheeting round it

 

[User001]

I'm glad circle square is primarily office based. Manchester seems to do well for residential buildings but I feel lags behind in big office space.

 

[Dobbo]

The planning framework for the area around the Owen street towers (currently under construction) has been revised upwards. See picture below.

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Owen street towers are the grey ones forming part of the same cluster.

If this comes to pass, the 20 acre site will be home to towers of the following height: One 64 storey, two fiftys, four in the forties, seven in the thirties, six in the twenties &, just for good measure, two eighteens & a nineteen.

Crazy.

 

[Brum X]

The above photo reminds me of the Australian city of Melbourne

 

[TheLocalYokel]

The above photo reminds me of the Australian city of Melbourne

I was thinking the very same. We go there most years to see our daughter and family. We think it's a fantastic city. We much prefer it to Sydney. Melbourne has a European feel and more elegance in our view.

Mind you, there seems to be the sort of rivalry between Melbourne and Sydney as I sometimes detect on this message board is the case between Birmingham and Manchester.

 

[Dobbo]

Gary Neville's revised scheme is back in for planning. It looks pretty good in renderland, and will essentially drag Spinningfields towards the civic part of the city centre. For scale, the tower is around 140m tall.

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[Aviador]

Very impressive.

 

[Brum X]

Looks awesome

 

[IanFarquharson]

Think you may just find that the Manchester economy has now overtaken Birmingham but not in population

Really ?
I work in Birmingham and I have never known so much development going on and comapnies moving into the city !

 

[mullion]

Perhaps a visit to Manchester will give you a very big suprise as to what is happening
as the city rockets away with tall building rising at a very rapid rate with what could become the
3rd tallest building in UK now in planning stages jobs availability highest in England

 

[Purebeef]

I live in South Manchester's, I have to say hand in heart, what a very very poor state the city is in. It had a period of brilliance, but it is violent dirty, yes we may have buildings going up but I am afraid to say. It has not vibrant comparison to the likes of Leeds Glasgow London and Birmingham. As much as I love Manchester. It has long way to go. Tall buildings do not make you better. And as for the jobs front...hmmm I would question that. They are all call centre jobs.

 

[Brum X]

Think you may just find that the Manchester economy has now overtaken Birmingham but not in population

This is by no means confirmed, measurement of an economy is defined in different ways. There may be such statistics which are saying MAN is bigger however there will be others that say different things. The development of Manchester is impressive, I follow the city with great interest however don't underestimate what Birmingham is doing right now. It's very easy to get caught out with looking at tall glass towers going up in Manchester and feeling abit of envy, however what is going up in Brum right now is as impressive. We may not be reaching for the sky in the same way as Manchester but we are totally changing the whole landscape of the city, something which is far challenging than sticking up a glass tower on an old car park. (Owen street towers) Both cities are booming just in different ways and that should be congratulated. Respect to Manchester for its dynamic approach to its development

 

[Purebeef]

All very nice, I see it daily but, what about on the ground. As a resident of Manchester this is all aesthetics. It needs cleaning, sort out the homelessness that is evident. The council has got it all wrong. Manchester needs to start becoming Manchester again and not a northern London.

 

[Aviador]

All very nice, I see it daily but, what about on the ground. As a resident of Manchester this is all aesthetics. It needs cleaning, sort out the homelessness that is evident. The council has got it all wrong. Manchester needs to start becoming Manchester again and not a northern London.

It's the government that is pushing for this with the likes of the Northern Powerhouse? I think if you ask anybody in Liverpool, Bradford, Leeds or Hull they will tell you they feel left out with regards to the so-called Northern Powerhouse and the investment they promise it will bring.

I'm not trying to defend Manchester City Council in any way but all cities have their faults. All have deprived run-down areas. All have homelessness problems. The investment taking place at the moment might only be "aesthetic" but it will be providing much needed construction jobs?

Homelessness, deprivation and poverty need tackling on a national level, not just in Manchester. It's something that has been talked about for generations and different governments have their own ideas on how to take these kind of problems. Labour has a tendency to pour money into deprived areas but some question whether this was the right thing to do. Conservatives tend to believe the money should cascade down from the top with investment leading to job creation. The LibDems believe education will help deliver better conditions in the future.

I guess nobody has the answer otherwise these kind of problems would have vanished years ago. Perhaps a combination of all three ideas would work better who knows.

 

[Silvercity]

It's the government that is pushing for this with the likes of the Northern Powerhouse? I think if you ask anybody in Liverpool, Bradford, Leeds or Hull they will tell you they feel left out with regards to the so-called Northern Powerhouse and the investment they promise it will bring.

I'm not trying to defend Manchester City Council in any way but all cities have their faults. All have deprived run-down areas. All have homelessness problems. The investment taking place at the moment might only be "aesthetic" but it will be providing much needed construction jobs?

Homelessness, deprivation and poverty need tackling on a national level, not just in Manchester. It's something that has been talked about for generations and different governments have their own ideas on how to take these kind of problems. Labour has a tendency to pour money into deprived areas but some question whether this was the right thing to do. Conservatives tend to believe the money should cascade down from the top with investment leading to job creation. The LibDems believe education will help deliver better conditions in the future.

I guess nobody has the answer otherwise these kind of problems would have vanished years ago. Perhaps a combination of all three ideas would work better who knows.

Hearing very little about Northern Powerhouse these days.

 

[Aviador]

Hearing very little about Northern Powerhouse these days.

That's a good point but it was George Osborne's baby. Where is he these days????

 

[David_itl]

I live in South Manchester too and I DO see a city that is vibrant and exciting. Violent and dirty? Well that will describe every single town and city within the UK. If we want to succeed in becoming a better city, the last thing we need to be is "be Manchester again" and the insular look that we had. Being "Manchester" led to the toilet block known as the Arndale Centre in it's initial guise. I've got friends that were absolutely ashamed to show their visitors around the city centre but the opportunity afforded by the IRA bomb saw a much better class of building being constructed which has continued, which in turn leads to much better companies looking to set up shop here.

If Manchester is, and has been, getting all the "favours" is down to the willingness to engage with the government over the past few years on how to maximise opportunities despite the differing political views; that the Labour party nationally wanted diddly squat to do with this initiative shames them. As for the type of jobs being created, well the financial services industry is one that the North should be attracting. Yes it is principally call centre related but is that really something to be frowned upon? Throw in the burgeoning high tech industries and that is where we get the demand coming in for the business links/destinations that we have been talking of wanting to have for years.

Here's the absolute latest about George Osbourne and the Northern Powerhouse... plans for the "transport revolution" to be revealed http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news...sport-revolution-northern-powerhouse-14139806

and to keep abreast of what is happening... http://www.northernpowerhousepartnership.co.uk/