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Plans to demolish one of Manchester’s first city centre high-rise towers to make way for hundreds of flats look set to be approved.

When Albert Bridge House opened in 1959, the 18-storey HMRC office block was one of the tallest city centre buildings around.

But its days appear to be numbered after council planners recommended approving a bid to raze the modernist structure and replace it with two skyscrapers 37 and 49 storeys tall, containing 800 apartments.

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Developers Oval previously had planning permission to regenerate the site in 2023, but work never got going on the office-and-apartment scheme.

The company then drew up new plans for far more homes earlier this year , and the LDRS understands Albert

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