direct to your inboxNew apartments, offices and a hotel will be built in Manchester city centre under proposals approved by councillors.But a 17-storey building that looked like it belonged in ‘1970s east Berlin’, as well as a retirement complex in the south of the city, were refused planning permission.A number of major developments were considered at the final Manchester council planning committee meeting of the year on Thursday.Plans to build an office ‘campus’ on an area of open land in