direct to your inboxManchester council is urging members of the public to have their say on plans to regenerate parts of Piccadilly and create a ‘modern and welcoming’ public space.The major thoroughfare is the busiest part of the city with shops, pubs, restaurants, offices and public transport packed in and around Piccadilly Gardens.Work to rejuvenate the Gardens started last year when part of Tadao Ando’s much-maligned modernist structure - dubbed by some as ‘the Berlin Wall’ - was torn down.It is hoped that the move will give police better visibility to monitor what has become a hotspot for drug-dealing, drug use and violence.But the council has long harboured ambitions to redevelop the areas around the Gardens in a project which could.
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