The Northern Quarter's 'internationally significant' Victorian buildings with a perilous future
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe future of a historically significant Northern Quarter building hangs in the balance after councillors delayed ruling on a planning application.
Developers Soller Nine hope to demolish some buildings in the block surrounded by Lever Street, Great Ancoats Street, Little Lever Street, and Houldsworth Street near the Bem Brasil restaurant.
In its place, they hope to reuse some facades as entrances for a new 18-storey office block with 180,000 sq ft of floorspace, which they say will add £34 million to Manchester’s economy.
Some of the structures on the site date back to 1781, while others are Victorian. The developers believe ‘a number of buildings’ on the plot ‘are unsafe, as demonstrated by the partial collapse in May’ which therefore necessitates their demolition and redevelopment.
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