| 4) Deansgate South | Fusion | Planning Approved – no start on site | 534 | Green | 2025 | • We have assumed this as a robust part of the PBSA pipeline; however, the longer the time that passes without implementation, the more doubt that could be passed over the deliverability of this site. In particular, there are two notes of caution with this site: ○ It is a small and constrained site where previous applicants have struggled to deliver the planning permissions that have been granted. Concerns over viability could therefore be raised by those wishing to challenge the position. ○ Significant wind microclimate issues have been identified both from a pedestrian safety and comfort perspective. As such, there is a condition precedent on the planning permission requiring mitigation measures to be identified and approved by the LPA. It is further noted that there may be viability challenges in relation to tree planting within the public highway (with this tree planting deemed likely to be one of the necessary mitigation measures, to the extent that it is a focus of the planning condition.• It is our assumption that MCC will not be minded to make any proactive effort themselves to facilitate PBSA on this site given that they did not support the principle of this development in the first place. |
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