Plans for a huge office complex with a public green space have been given the go ahead by Manchester council this week, but some people want the whole city centre site to become a park
Campaigners say local people feel 'ignored once more' after fresh plans for the future of former retail park in Manchester city centre are approved. The former Central Retail Park off Great Ancoats Street is set to be turned into a huge office complex with a green space open to the public in the middle of it.
Representatives form the group said they met face to face with the new leader to share its draft proposal for a park on the Central Retail Park site. However, in an open letter to the leader, Julia Kovaliova said that Trees Not Cars were not invited into discussions before the latest plan was published.
It comes after the group submitted a plan that they said would replace the 3.5 acres of green space lost nearby at New Islington Green which is also set to be turned into an office campus. She said: "The council and local councillors are celebrating this as a win for green space, when the plans show anything but."
"We strongly believe in putting a proper park on the former Central Retail Park site at the heart of the community in Ancoats and New Islington and will keep campaigning to force the Council to actually listen to what people want."
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