Manchester council green lights bumper crop of city centre schemes

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City centre applications given the nod include four towers up to 45-storeys in height

Manchester council has approved a bumper crop of major city centre schemes which will together provide more than 800 homes, 1,800 student rooms and 740,000 sq ft of office space.

The council’s planning committee met yesterday evening to make decisions on 10 planning applications, approving all of them in under three hours.

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