Realty unveils designs including Student Accommodation on BBC site – Manchester
Yousef Tishbi’s Realty Estates says it will submit plans for an 800,000 sq ft mixed-use development on the former BBC site on Oxford Road in July. The proposed scheme includes leisure, hotel, offices, supermarket, student and full-market residential, non-food retail, as well as associated car parking and extensive landscaping and public realm.
The project team includes architects Feilden Clegg Bradley and Alex Meitlis, regeneration consultancy Adroit Economics, planning consultancy DPP, retail and leisure agent Cheetham & Mortimer, GVA and RGA Consulting on hotel agency, Jones Lang LaSalle for residential and student accommodation.
There will also be a civic space for public use for exhibitions, broadcast and cultural performances.Consent for demolition was granted last month and work is due to start on site by July. Shahram Sakhdari, head of developments at Realty Estates, said: “Initial discussions with the city council have been extremely positive and we look forward to working with them and other stakeholders prior to submitting a planning application in due course. This is a deliverable scheme, and we look forward to major investment, regeneration and substantial employment creation for local people.” …