en.Wedoany.com Reported - Manchester City Council is conducting a public consultation on plans by SimpsonHaugh Architects to expand the scale of four proposed residential towers in Castlefield, a residential development scheme that will deliver hundreds of homes.

The Water Street scheme will join the emerging high-rise cluster on the western side of Castlefield, adjacent to the four-tower Trinity Islands project, also designed by SimpsonHaugh for Renaker and currently under construction. The consultation documents do not specify the exact heights of the proposed towers, but drawings indicate they will be roughly equivalent to or slightly shorter than the Trinity Island project, which reaches a maximum of 60 storeys. This scale would surpass the previous strategic regeneration framework for the site proposed in 2017, which suggested buildings of up to 31 storeys and approximately 900 homes.

Manchester City Council stated that the latest strategic regeneration framework aims to "significantly raise the ambition level for this neighbourhood" and aligns with policies supporting high-density residential development in the city centre. The council added that the construction of nearby tall buildings has "fundamentally changed" the context of the surrounding area, and the undeveloped land on this site presents a "strategic opportunity." The residential development proposes to replace four council-owned industrial buildings, in an area severely fragmented by a major road, two railway viaducts, and the canal network. The project will repair the urban corridor through the creation of new pedestrian and cycling networks, along with a canal-side park comparable in size to the city's 6.5-acre Mayfield Park.

This public consultation is now online and will close on May 25th.

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