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Landmark 13-storey scheme approved last year to be resubmitted as nine storeys with its floorspace almost halved

Hawkins Brown’s proposals for a landmark new library for Manchester Metropolitan University have been cut by four storeys and the scheme’s floorspace almost halved in an effort to cut costs.

The original £90m replacement for the university’s All Saints Library was approved in February last year. It would have risen to 13 storeys with around 22,000sq m of floorspace.

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