{"id":14950,"date":"2017-02-18T16:38:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T16:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=14950"},"modified":"2017-02-18T16:38:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T16:38:24","slug":"historic-england-officially-objects-to-neville-and-giggs-aggressive-manchester-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=14950","title":{"rendered":"Historic England officially objects to Neville and Giggs\u2019 \u2018aggressive\u2019 Manchester Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Historic England has said it is \u2018deeply concerned\u2019 about proposals to build a pair of bronze-clad skyscrapers in central Manchester and will officially object to the Make-designed scheme, according to press reports.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Historic England said\u00a0a video released by the backers of the high-rise\u00a0St Michael\u2019s development \u2013 a consortium which includes former Manchester United footballers Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs \u2013\u00a0showed \u2018how aggressively the proposed buildings would jar against the grand civic buildings\u2019 around Albert Square.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation feared the design, height and colour of the\u00a031 and 21-storey towers would dominate the Deansgate\/Peter Street conservation area and dwarf the nationally-important Grade II*-listed Central Library and Grade I-listed Town Hall.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Historic England added that the current proposal was \u2018not good enough to justify the damage it would cause to the streets around the site\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>For the full story see <a href=\"https:\/\/historicengland.org.uk\/whats-new\/news\/historic-england-objects-manchester-towers\" target=\"_blank\">Historic England news<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/02\/16\/historic-england-issues-objection-aggressive-manchester-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Telegraph<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historic England has said it is \u2018deeply concerned\u2019 about proposals to build a pair of bronze-clad skyscrapers in central Manchester and will officially object to the Make-designed scheme, according to press reports.<\/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-14950","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\/14950","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=14950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14951,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14950\/revisions\/14951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}