in their vision for a ‘vibrant’ zero-carbon neighbourhood. But council leader Sir Richard Leese hit back at the executive meeting on Wednesday by accusing his opposite number of ‘ignorance’, ‘deception’ and ‘despising’ people living in the city centre.A draft development framework for the city centre site, bought by Manchester council for £37m in 2017, proposes around 1m square feet of office space with the potential of housing 10,000 jobs.Three separate plots of land surrounding the 10.5-acre site on Great Ancoats Street would also be used to ‘promote’ up to 145 new affordable homes.Cotton Field Park would also be improved alongside a new public square - but during three separate public consultations there were calls for more public green.
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