{"id":325446,"date":"2025-12-19T22:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325446\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:42:09","slug":"manchester-tower-trio-beats-christmas-cut-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325446\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester tower trio beats Christmas cut-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IQ Student Accommodation has submitted plans for 2,500 student beds in a series of tall buildings at its Weston Hall and Pendulum Hotel site on Charles Street ahead of the festive break.<\/p>\n<p>A 50-storey skyscraper would be delivered in phase one alongside an 18-storey building and a nine-storey link element. Phase two would see the 32- and 24-storey towers come forward.<\/p>\n<p>The development, to be constructed on a 1.8-acres plot, is aimed at addressing a \u201csignificant ongoing shortfall in PBSA provision in Manchester\u201d, according to planning documents.<\/p>\n<p>Designed by Manchester-tower experts SimpsonHaugh Architects, the scheme would see the number of beds on site increase significantly.<\/p>\n<p>There are 528 student beds and 120 hotel rooms at IQ\u2019s Charles Street site at present. These would be demolished to make way for the towers.<\/p>\n<p>IQ first<a href=\"https:\/\/www.placenorthwest.co.uk\/iq-sets-out-manchester-vision\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0trailed the plans for its Charles Street site<\/a>\u00a0in 2020 when it consulted on a development framework encompassing its Manchester holdings.<\/p>\n<p>The framework set out plans for both Echo Street \u2013 a 1,200-unit scheme currently on site \u2013 as well as the Weston Halls and Pendulum Hotel site.<\/p>\n<p>A vision for a 55-storey tower on the corner of London Road and Granby Row also featured in IQ\u2019s 2020 thinking.<\/p>\n<p>IQ\u2019s Charles Street development is located next door to another high-density student proposal: RG Real Estate\u2019s eight-, 10-, and 38-storey scheme within Sister.<\/p>\n<p>Plans for the Charles Street project are being worked up alongside planner Turley as well as Civic, GIA, Futureserv, SLR, Project Four, Wintec, OFR, Planit, and Cumming Group.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, search for reference number 144791\/FO\/2025\u00a0on Manchester City Council\u2019s planning portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IQ Student Accommodation has submitted plans for 2,500 student beds in a series of tall buildings at its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-325446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}