New car park application for BBC site
THE company running a car park at one of Manchester’s biggest development sites has applied for an 18-month extension.
Essex-based Total Car Parks secured permission to operate a 563-space car park for a year last June at the former BBC site on Oxford Road.
It had originally applied for two years but councillor Kevin Peel asked for this to be limited to one on the basis that it is a prime development site.
The six-acre space, which was levelled in 2012, is owned by Manchester-based developer Realty Estates which also has a car park at the former Boddington’s brewery, another prime “gateway” site.
The city council views the land as a key part of its plans for “The Corridor” – a strip of commercial, cultural and education facilities running from Manchester University into the city that are at the heart of Manchester’s knowledge economy. In 2011 Realty unveiled plans for an 800,000 sq ft mixed use development.
