Deliverability Timescales • Current Status: We understand that discussions are ongoing but that neither Urban Splash or any other development partner has been agreed. On this basis, indicative timescales are provided below: • Procurement of development partner and contractual matters – 6 to 12 months. • Design development, consultation and preparation of an application for full planning permission, complete with Environmental Impact Assessment – 8 to 12 months. • Planning application determination period: circa 4 months. • Stopping Up: to take place under the town and country planning act concurrently with the planning application process. • Pre-construction – 6 to 12 months • Contractor procurement and entering into contract. • Pre-commencement conditions and obligations (as applicable) • Enabling works (e.g. closure of subways and rerouting, removal of trees, new temporary opening on carriageway, service and drainage diversion (as required))

Key Findings and Recommendations • Construction period: c. 36 months (the site logistics plan would suggest that the site would come forward in one phase) • Estimated duration: c.5 to 6 years • The Site is an existing roundabout with no existing use value, which falls within the ownership of Manchester City Council. This presents the city council with the possibility of using their land assets to support the viability of a scheme that positively addresses quantitative and qualitative need for PBSA as part of the city’s forward planning process. • A feasibility study by Hodder and Partners on behalf of Urban Splash suggests that the site could accommodate a scheme of significant scale – approx. 750 bedspaces; however, this has not yet been tested through the planning process. • A constraint to developmen is the site’s proximity to the Mancunian Way / Cambridge Street Junction; however, a construction logistics feasibility study by Tier 1 contractor Kier has indicated that there is a deliverable scheme. This would involve disruption to strategic highways over a period of time and a proposed construction compound adjacent to existing residential properties in Hulme. • The site is currently used as a subway and provides important pedestrian connections. Any proposed scheme will continue to need to maintain / enhance safe pedestrian connections for students and the general public. • Should the city council be minded to take this opportunity forward, as a means of adding to PBSA supply, then we would recommend the following: ◦ Undertake independent scrutiny of the scheme’s feasibility from a construction logisitics perspective and what this would mean in terms of temporary disruption to Manchester and its residents. ◦ Should the city council determine that this first step can be appropriately managed, then a development brief should be drafted and consulted upon with the universities. This should then form the basis of a developer procurement process with the chosen developer being tested on their ability to deliver and meeting the brief.