Homelessness service relocation planned to unlock £450m lab scheme
Manchester City Council wants to move a service that provides accommodation for homeless people leaving hospital from Upper Brook Street to Northenden to pave the way for a life sciences workspace cluster.
Manchester’s Homeless Hospital Discharge Accommodation is currently located at Elizabeth Yarwood Court off Upper Brook Street.
The facility is on a plot earmarked for a 215,000 sq ft lab building under plans from Kadans Science Partner.
The city council wants to sell the site to Kadans so that the project can be delivered. However, before it can do that, the authority must move the homelessness service to a new site.
The 10,000 sq ft Longmire Centre off Longley Lane in Northenden – a former adult education complex – has been chosen as a temporary home for the hospital discharge centre.
In the longer term, a permanent home for the service on Dickenson Road in Rusholme will be ready to occupy next summer.
Failure to relocate the service from Elizabeth Yarwood Court would “place at risk the planned development of the life science lab space and wider Upper Brook Street regeneration proposals”, according to documents accompanying an application for the conversion of the Longmire Centre.
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Lucky old Rusholme gets more smack heads dumped on it – should further destroy what was once one of the city’s finest residential districts. Complete madness.
By Arg!
So homeless people getting moved on again, so someone can make some money from their shelter site?
By Swampy
Can’t turn down an opportunity like that. Hopefully both schemes go through smoothly.
By Peter Chapman
Arg! So the homeless are not folk priced out of a house by the market economy system. They are “smack heads” are they? How do you describe yourself?
By James Yates
Arg! Northenden Is not in Rusholme!! It is a neighbourhood to the south of the Mersey. No apologies for the geography lesson.
By Anonymous