Marcus Rashford missed Manchester United's 4-2 FA Cup win over Newport County at Rodney Parade on Sunday.
12.01.2024 - 16:35 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Negotiations to start the redevelopment of the former Central Retail Park are in their final stages, the council has announced.
The former retail park, which closed for good in 2019, has been subject to a long-running dispute over its future — with campaigners calling for the 10-and-a-half acre site to be turned into a park after it was proposed to temporarily become a car park. However, the town hall has rejected calls for it to become parkland.
Instead, the authority has chosen to use the land for a complex of offices with green spaces open to the public in the same site. This plan, which was agreed in March 2023, is now close to becoming a reality after council bosses announced on Friday (January 12) they were ‘in late-stage negotiations to begin the redevelopment of part of the former retail park by the Government Property Agency (GPA)’.
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Once complete, it will provide space for 7,000 civil servants housed in a ‘new digital campus and office space’. A formal planning application to fulfil that ambition is expected later this summer.
“We have big ambitions for this site, and it has the potential to accommodate thousands of jobs, create a new green public space and gateway through to Cotton Field Park for the first time, while developing highly sustainable office space – and in time create an ecosystem that will support new businesses to grow in the future,” said council leader Bev Craig in announcing the move.
“This is great news for Manchester, and we are working closely with the GPA to bring these proposals forward. In them we have found a development partner that shares our vision for the site, which supports the continued
Marcus Rashford missed Manchester United's 4-2 FA Cup win over Newport County at Rodney Parade on Sunday.
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