GMC eyeing Spinningfields move
THE General Medical Council looks set to move its Manchester office to Spinningfields, Allied London’s £1.5bn city scheme.
It is understood that more than 200 people will be moving from St James’s Buildings on Oxford Street to Spinningfields next autumn. The GMC will continue to hold its fitness to practice panels at Oxford Street though.
Such a timescale would fit in with the opening of 3 Hardman Street – among the largest buildings in the project at 350,000 sq ft.
Developer Allied London has already let more than 70% of the space in the
£160m building to a clutch of professional services firms including law firm Pinsent Mason, accountants Baker Tilly and BDO Stoy Hayward and Barclays and Bank of New York Mellon.
The GMC, which regulates the medical profession, has not publicly confirmed the move, although it is understood staff in Manchester have been informed .
Securing the GMC would be a boost for Allied London, which had hoped to have secured deals with business advisers PricewaterhouseCoopers and at least one international bank this year, but has seen decsions mothballed by the credit cruch and the recession.
