Global engineering and technology firm Siemens is planning to create a sustainability and healthcare business park on its Princess Parkway site in Didsbury, South Manchester.
Siemens has put forward plans to Manchester city council to create a major new mixed-use scheme delivering a hospital with Spire Healthcare coupled with training and conferencing facilities.
Siemens will go out to consultation this summer before finalising the development framework for the application.
The firm will anchor an office park on the 20-acre site, totalling 140,000 sq ft, along with 90 houses on a six-acre plot.
The plan will be delivered in phases with construction starting in summer 2015, subject to the grant of planning permission.
Siemens Industry and site director Juergen Maier said: “Sir William Siemens House, our iconic white building on Princess Parkway, is a popular landmark and our businesses based on the campus provide high-value direct and indirect employment opportunities for hundreds of people from across the City Region and beyond.”
“The co-location of Siemens businesses alongside a new state of the art private hospital will drive agglomeration within the City Region’s high tech, healthcare and other growth sectors”
Siemens purchased the site 26 years ago in 1988.
Chris.Berkin@estatesgazette.com
