Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox "This is not about stable neighbourhoods, generating council tax, working with the area.
They want us to be transient - it's 'do your 10 or 15 years, eat in the nice restaurants and then f*** off'." City centre resident Mike Halley is furious.
For more than two years he has been leading a battle against plans for a 55-storey student skyscraper to be built next to his home in Macintosh Village, just off Oxford Road.
Mike believes the tower, which would dwarf its immediate neighbours, would fundamentally change the residential character of the area. READ MORE: Plans for new parking charges in Trafford village proving controversial Last week however,
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