Oh good grief.
THE BRITON’S Protection, one of Manchester’s finest and most popular pubs. Listed on the National Register of Historic Pubs.
A property developer wants to put the pub on a concrete raft and shift it against the wall of Jurys Inn. The Council are keen to have another tower here to mark the ‘gateway’ to the city from Princess Parkway and the Planning Department has indicated to the developer that they would look favourably on the proposal. Past experience of the Labour Exchange site and the Whitworth Street site would suggest that this will make the proposal a shoe in for approval.
Hey, why not just bulldoze everything older than 1996 and finish off what the IRA started?
We can flatten that horrible old Town Hall for starters, and build a lovely new, gleaming glass-and-steel 48 storey tower which is more fitting to a Modern, Thrusting and Vibrant 21st Century City...
5 comments:
No, no, no, no, and no.
(Although I don't think that's accepted as grounds for a challenge to a planning application)
... and permission has already been granted for a 17 storey tower across the road at the end of Deansgate Locks on the tiny site on the corner there.
They should demolish the Deansgate Locks bars and instead just do a big poo there; it'd be an improvement on almost every level.
I don't mind all this new glass stuff, although that picture wot you got there makes me think it's not such a good idea. Still, it looks like it could be used as a giant mirror in case of alien lazer attack.
But there's no harm in objecting to the planning application and seeing what happens. I objected to a planning application to build more houses next to the house I live in and then the application was withdrawn, which I took as a victory - take them where you find them, I say...
How much further down the road will BP be moved? If it's a matter of a few meters (<50) - what would be the problem?
...Lev
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