Planners at Manchester City Council have approved plans to convert the former CIS Tower once occupied by Co-operative Insurance Society into a 14-storey office building with a new 10-floor 183-bedroom hotel with a casino built alongside as part of the scheme.
The tower block in Portland Street, on the edge of Manchester's Chinatown, was built in 1961. The building is currently largely vacant after the Co-operative Group left five years ago.