{"id":13221,"date":"2016-07-13T16:03:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T15:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=13221"},"modified":"2016-07-10T17:53:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T16:53:38","slug":"manchesters-tallest-skyscraper-plan-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=13221","title":{"rendered":"Manchester&#8217;s tallest skyscraper plan approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Plans to build the tallest skyscraper in Manchester have been approved by the city council.<\/h3>\n<p>The BBC writes:<\/p>\n<p>The apartment block, alongside three smaller ones, will be built in Owen Street, near Deansgate railway station, on land previously used as a car park.<\/p>\n<p>The tallest will stand at 200m (656ft), 19 storeys bigger than the current highest building, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/manchester\/3665503.stm\">Beetham Tower<\/a>, which is 168m (551ft) over 47 storeys.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 nearby residents objected to the council about the building plan. They said the buildings would look out of place and do not provide affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p>But Manchester City Council said it would be \u2018a striking landmark development\u2019 that would regenerate the area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-manchester-36644701\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans to build the tallest skyscraper in Manchester have been approved by the city council. The BBC writes: The apartment block, alongside three smaller ones, will be built in Owen Street, near Deansgate railway station, on land previously used as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=13221\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13222,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221\/revisions\/13222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}