Demolition plans at Mayfield station

A PLANNING application has been submitted for permission to pull down the roof at Manchester’s derelict Mayfield railway station.

Prior to Government cutbacks the site, next to Piccadilly Station, was earmarked for a 550,000 sq ft civil service campus, described as a “Whitehall of the North”.

The planned demolition work is not a prelude to a revival of this scheme but instead an attempt to make the area safe.

A planning application states: “The existing structure is in a dangerous condition and hazardous to both authorised persons who are on site, and trespassers entering the site illegally.”

The work will involve the removal of an asbestos roof covering and broken wired glazed roof lights, and the supporting structure, “all of which are in a dangerous condition”.

The application has been made by British Rail Board (Residuary), the government agency that manages the site.

Manchester City Council is understood to still harbour a desire to create a civil service campus site in the longer term, but in the interim a new partnership is being formed involving BRBR and Transport for Greater Manchester which will bring forward a new development strategy for the site.

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