Final plans for a 15 acre mixed development in Manchester which sits on the site of the former home of the ITV studios in the city centre have been submitted by Allied London. If approved the St John’s Place development will be worth £1.35bn.
Planning applications have now been submitted for all buildings in the development which includes St john’s Place, The Villages, The Riverside and Manchester’s first vertical village, Trinity Islands.
The first to be submitted was the refurbishment of the historic Bonded Warehouse back in June as well as the conversion of the former Old Granda Studios headquarters buildings into an event hotel to be known as Manchester Grande.
The first of the new submissions is for St John’s Place, which will be the gateway to the new neighbourhood and is made up of a cluster of four 5 to 50 storeys mixed-use buildings. The largest of these will be a new 50–storey landmark tower consisting of approximately 280 residential apartments and 180 hotel suites set within its own garden. Alongside this tower will be an apartment hotel with approximately 150 bedrooms and two residential buildings that face onto the River Irwell and Quay Street with retail and leisure space at ground level.
Altogether the plans include 2,500 apartments, Three hotels comprising 350 to 400 rooms, new riverside space with cycle ways, new green spaces, low rise buildings to be used by independent firms to create 'a village vibe' and a £76m Factory Manchester theatre.
Allied London proposes to start construction work on St. John’s in 2016 subject to planning approval.