The High Court has denied a bid to overturn a council’s decision to grant planning permission for GMS Parking’s 55-storey student accommodation development in Manchester.
Mr Justice Frodsham has dismissed a request for a judicial review from Mackintosh Village Management, which represents nearly 500 leaseholders in and around Great Marlborough Street and Hulme Street, where the development is located.
The group has been ordered to pay Manchester City Council £10,000 in costs.
The council had approved GMS Parking’s plans for the 853-bedroom development in June 2021. It received more than 750 letters objecting to the proposals.
Several of the leaseholders’ objections centred around their contractual right to park within a multi-storey car park forming part of the redevelopment proposals.
As part of the proposals, GMS sought to reduce the car park’s capacity from 391 to 101 spaces. A fifth of those spaces would be fitted with electric car charging points, while 5% would serve as disabled parking spots.
In its legal challenge, Mackintosh Village Management put forward six issues relating to the planning process as causes for a judicial review. Those included whether the council “seriously misled” the committee about access to the car park during the assembly and disassembly of tower cranes. However, the judge ruled in favour of the council on all six issues.
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