Crosby Lend Lease has secured planning approval for a residential development at Manchester’s Potato Wharf, in the Castlefield area of the city.
The developer plans to built 213 flats on the site, including two six-storey blocks and a twelve-storey tower.
Crosby has also submitted a further application to expand on the current plans, raising the two blocks from six storeys to eight.
The scheme was initially recommended for refusal by English Heritage, amid concern that the new developments would ruin the local area, identified as a possible World Heritage Site.
Local oppostition also focused on grey brick being used for the new buildings, when most the existing buildings in the area use red brick.
Crosby Lend Lease also wants to extend the existing proposals still further to incorporate an adjacent two and a half acres.
The land is currently being used as a cement works and a scrap yard.
