Manchester Residential Construction Boom Continues  

Of all the places you are likely to need JCB overalls in the UK, Manchester is high on the list. The city is notoriously capricious when it comes to weather and while it may be famous for rain, it can be hot, cold, still, windy, wet and dry all in the space of a week.

This matters not just for those who venture into the city for shopping, leisure or office work purposes; it is particularly pertinent for those working outside on major construction projects.

While the typical house building companies like Taylor Wimpey have warned that there will be a steep drop in housing completions this year, firms specialising in major city centre property apartment developments in places like Manchester are still ploughing ahead with new projects. That means there will still be plenty of construction jobs working in the vicinity this year and beyond.

Proof of this has been revealed by a trio of major developments taking big steps forward at the end of February and start of March. 

The Property Alliance Group and Starwood Capital are celebrating after gaining planning permission for a 27-storey stepped tower on Deansgate in the city centre. This will provide 300 apartments and marks the final piece in the jigsaw of the development, with permission already secured for a hotel and office block.

Over on the northern edge of the city centre at Red Bank, Far East Consortium and the city council have progressed plans for a 1,500-home development by launching a new consultation on the plans. This is part of wider plan to develop a major corridor leading north-west from the city centre along the Irk Valley.

Across the Irwell in Salford, planning permission has been granted for a third skyscraper in the Greengate cluster being built by skyscraper specialist Renaker. Known as Parkside, the 41-storey tower will feature 518 apartments.

So while residential construction may have slowed out in the suburbs, in city centre areas like those of Manchester and Salford it is still full steam ahead.