300 staff set for big move to Citygate

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman is moving more than 300 of its staff to plush new offices in central Manchester.

In a deal brokered by global real estate adviser Colliers International, the PHSO is relocating from New York Street to 31,000sq ft of grade A office space over four floors of the Citygate building.

It has signed a 15-year lease on floors one to four of the remodeled five-storey property on Mosley Street.

Citygate has recently been comprehensively revamped to provide a total of 38,513sq ft of open plan grade A office space on five floors, with the ground floor let to Barclays.

Scott Shufflebottom, national offices agency at the Manchester office of Colliers International, said: “Citygate provides high specification Grade A office space in a highly sought-after location. We are now marketing the last remaining top floor suite, totalling 8,073 sq ft with on-site secure basement parking.”

Mark Baldwin, associate director at the Manchester office of real estate advisers GVA, advised PHSO and said: “Citygate has been transformed thanks to an outstanding refurbishment with its open plan design being ideally suited to the requirements of PHSO.”

Colliers and TSG Property Consultants are joint letting agents at Citygate.