Nearly £5bn will be spent on capital projects across the 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester before 2014. Martin Spring maps the extent of the boom's butterfly effect.
Manchester's construction boom has burst out of the city centre, where it started with the redevelopment of shopping centres devastated by the IRA bomb in 1996, to all 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester. According to cost consultant Davis Langdon, "about £4.9bn worth of capital projects are set to be delivered in Greater Manchester between 2004-2014, with projects in the city centre accounting for about £2.5bn of this figure".
Currently, giant office and luxury flat developments in the city centre are balanced by extensive swathes of urban renewal in the rundown Victorian suburbs of east, north and south Manchester, Salford, Oldham and Rochdale. Salford in particular is in the grips of a housebuilding explosion, with some 9000 new-build and refurbished dwellings in the pipeline.
The biggest long-term boost on the horizon promises to be the BBC's transfer of 1800 BBC jobs from London to Manchester in 2010, which will call for a £500m media centre and generate umpteen spin-off developments. Two sites are being considered.
Listed below are 24 of the most significant projects in development - and overleaf we focus on six sites that are already dramatically reshaping the city's landscape.
Manchester city
1 Spinningfields
£1.25bn development of 230,000 m2 offices, 37,000 m2 retail and 391 apartments
developers Allied London Properties, Westbury Homes
masterplanner Building Design Partnership
architects Sheppard Robson, Aedas
contractors Sir Robert McAlpine, Bovis Lend Lease
completion 2007
2 Civil Justice Centre
£160m, 28 000 m2 civil law courts within Spinningfields
developer Allied London Properties
architect Denton Corker Marshall
contractor Bovis Lend Lease
completion January 2007
3 Great Northern Tower
25-storey tower of 257 apartments
housebuilder George Wimpey
architect Assael Architecture
completion 2008
4 Beetham Tower
47-storey tower containing Hilton hotel and 219 apartments
developer Beetham Developments
architect Ian Simpson Architects
contractor Carillion
completion 2007
5 Piccadilly Place
63,000 m2 offices, 2500 m2 retail, 157 apartments and hotel
developer Argent Group
architects Austin-Smith:Lord, Hodder Associates, Glen Howells Associates, Wilkinson Eyre and others
contractor Carillion
completion 2008
6 Inacity Tower
£220m 60-storey tower of flats and hotel
developer Inacity
architect Woods Bagot
completion 2008
7 BBC media centre
Denotes each of two possible sites for £300m media centre
8 Manchester Joint Hospitals
£383m PFI hospital redevelopment
PFI developer Catalyst
architect Anshen Dyer
contractor Bovis Lend Lease
completion 2010
9 Greenquarter
1460 dwellings, 93,000 m2 offices, hotel and retail
developers Crosby Group, Development Securities, La Sande
architects Aedas and others
completion July 2008
10 Manchester Salford housing market renewal pathfinder
12,500 new dwellings, 7000 refurbished dwellings and 10,000 m2 retail
retail developers New East Manchester Urban Regeneration Company, Lovell, Gleeson, Bellway Homes, Countryside Properties, LPC Living
architects Bowker Sadler and others
completion 2018
11 New Islington Millennium Community
14,000 new and refurbished dwellings
developer/contractor Urban Splash
architects Alsop Architects, FAT Architects
completion 2018
12 Lakeside
Conversion of 211 council flats for sale
developer LPC Living
architect Leach Rhodes Walker
contractor CDL
completion late 2006
13 Didsbury Point
350 dwellings, 26,000 m2 offices
housebuilder Countryside Properties Salford
14 Manchester Salford housing market renewal pathfinder
12,5000 new dwellings, 7000 refurbished dwellings and 10,000 m2 retail
developers Central Salford Urban Regeneration Company and others
architects EDAW, Terry Farrell & Partners and others completion 2018
15 Broughton Green
800 new dwellings, part of Manchester Salford housing market renewal pathfinder
developers Salford council, City Spirit, In Partnership, Royal Bank of Scotland
architect Church Lucas
contractor Taylor Woodrow Construction
16 Langworthy Housing
349 refurbished houses, part of Manchester Salford housing market renewal pathfinder
developer Urban Splash
architect Shed km
completion end 2007
17 Abito
256 microflats
developer Ask
architect BDP
contractor Carillion
completion 2007
18 NV Buildings
246 apartments in three 17-storey towers
developer Countryside Properties
architect Broadway Malyan
completion March 2006
19 Salford City Reds stadium
20,000-seater stadium and hotel
developer Salford City Reds Football Club
completion 2010
Stockport
20 Future Stockport
£500m mixed-use town-centre regeneration
developers various
masterplanner BDP
completion 2020
Tameside
21 St Petersfield development
£100m urban business park
developer Ask
architect Aedas and others
Contractor Eric Wright Construction
22 Droylsden Marina
£100m canalised marina
developer/contractor Watkins Jones
architect BDP
completion 2011
Oldham and Rochdale
23 Oldham Rochdale housing market renewal pathfinder
300 new-build dwellings, 400 refurbished dwellings
developers Contour Housing Group, McInerney Homes and others
completion 2018
Bolton
24 Central Street development
£100m mixed-use town-centre regeneration
developer Wilson Bowden Developments
architect Reid Architecture
completion end 2009
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