Property developers, Allied London, have revealed plans for their new St John's Quarter in Manchester, the site of the former Granada Television Studios.

Plans include up to three hotels on the fifteen acre site plus a theatre and other performance venues and up to 2,500 new apartments fronting the River Irwell. The new St John's Quarter, as it will be known, will become a 'low-rise villages of small shops and creative businesses built along narrow streets’.

Allied London intend to submit a detailed planning application to Manchester City Council with the aim of starting work of the new St John's neighbourhood in mid-2016.

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