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Manchester is heading for a momentous day this week as more than 1,500 homes, a new shopping centre, and a major step in a billion-pound project could be approved.

Councillors are set to discuss a bumper 800-page agenda on Thursday (November 20), in which town hall planning officers have recommended 1,732 homes get the go-ahead in five locations.

The largest is a 752-apartment development on Stockton’s furniture store on Great Ancoats Street, comprising two towers 25 and 50 storeys tall.

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Developers Liquid Funding Business say the skyscrapers will be surrounded by publicly-accessible outdoor space ‘covering 55pc of the site’, which will complement the public green space planned opposite, part of the Civil S

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