Peterson Group and Trilogy Real Estate have submitted plans to Manchester City Council for the redevelopment of the historic six-acre Great Northern complex in Manchester.
The plans include redeveloping the Great Northern Warehouse, a Grade II* listed Victorian building that now includes a 1990s cinema and car park.
Peterson and Trilogy’s plans include 150,000 sq ft of office space across the six-acre site.
The joint venture plans to repurpose the warehouse’s upper floors into 120,000 sq ft of offices and refurbish Deansgate Terrace to provide 30,000 sq ft of offices on the upper floors, with retail and leisure uses on ground level.
The Deansgate Terrace office space will target small to medium-sized businesses. In addition, Deansgate Mews will be refurbished to include space for local independent businesses and new facilities for community use.
The jv’s plans also include providing 746 homes across two taller buildings and a lower-scale podium building, each with shared amenity space, outside terraces and access to green space.
The plans also propose the removal of the 1990s “Leisure Box” extension on the southern half of the site – currently home to an Odeon cinema, NCP car park and gym – with the adaptive reuse of the existing multi-storey car park to minimise embodied carbon in construction and reduce car parking numbers from 1,240 to 929.
The public square in front of the warehouse will be redesigned and new pedestrian routes through the site created.
Trilogy and Peterson have submitted the planning application after an extended programme of public and stakeholder consultation that started in 2017.
The jv acquired the Great Northern in 2013 and has since been developing a series of proposals in a 10-year plan to bring to life one of Manchester’s most historic and strategically significant regeneration areas.
The plans have been resubmitted since a prior approval in 2017, as a number of long leaseholds across the site meant that redevelopment of the building would have had to happen in isolation. Now those tenancies are nearing expiration, the whole site can be considered “as one”.
Robert Wolstenholme, founder and chief executive of Trilogy Real Estate, said: “Alongside our partners at Peterson, Trilogy puts community, sustainability and local business at the heart of our schemes. We have already been delivering on this agenda at the Great Northern.
“Following positive community feedback, we are excited to have submitted plans that will create a green and flourishing mixed-use neighbourhood that remains authentic to its roots. We believe that this approach will provide a key differentiator as we continue to build a thriving working and residential community.”
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