Better shops - a change you will see
Plans have been submitted for a retail and residential development which would breathe new life into Fallowfield Triangle.
Aldi and Great Places Housing Group, working closely with Manchester City Council, have made a planning application to create a new 1364 sq m store, 14 two-bedroom apartments and 10 three and four-bedroom houses.
The new food store would anchor the regeneration of the centre by increasing the number of visitors to the centre, supporting existing businesses and helping bring the vacant units back into use.
A car park for the centre, something which residents and traders have been calling for, would also be created as part of the scheme with 85 spaces.
The majority of people replying to a consultation carried out by Great Places and Aldi, which attracted almost 200 responses, were in favour of the plans.
The proposals focus on a 2.01 acre site bounded by Lloyd Street South, Hart Road and Platt Lane which currently contains St Crispin's church and social club and the UK Scaffold Yard.
Promising a "high quality, contemporary and modern" architectural design the new store and homes would complement the £1 million of environmental improvements which have been carried out to the Triangle in recent years. Further facelift work would take place to the back of shops along Platt Lane and Lloyd Street South as part of the plans.
Other investment in the Triangle area included last year's revamp of Fallowfield Library and new artwork at the corner of Platt Lane and Hart Lane based on designs by pupils at Wilbraham Primary School.
Aldi and Great Places Housing Group, working closely with Manchester City Council, have made a planning application to create a new 1364 sq m store, 14 two-bedroom apartments and 10 three and four-bedroom houses.
The new food store would anchor the regeneration of the centre by increasing the number of visitors to the centre, supporting existing businesses and helping bring the vacant units back into use.
A car park for the centre, something which residents and traders have been calling for, would also be created as part of the scheme with 85 spaces.
The majority of people replying to a consultation carried out by Great Places and Aldi, which attracted almost 200 responses, were in favour of the plans.
The proposals focus on a 2.01 acre site bounded by Lloyd Street South, Hart Road and Platt Lane which currently contains St Crispin's church and social club and the UK Scaffold Yard.
Promising a "high quality, contemporary and modern" architectural design the new store and homes would complement the £1 million of environmental improvements which have been carried out to the Triangle in recent years. Further facelift work would take place to the back of shops along Platt Lane and Lloyd Street South as part of the plans.
Other investment in the Triangle area included last year's revamp of Fallowfield Library and new artwork at the corner of Platt Lane and Hart Lane based on designs by pupils at Wilbraham Primary School.
Local Councillor Mike Amesbury, said: "It's heartening that the investment which has already taken places in services and artwork to improve the area around the Triangle will be underpinned by this major scheme. Local people have been calling for improved shopping facilities for sometime and I'm proud that together with my Labour colleagues we are able to make this change happen"
