Two huge planning rows will resume next week as proposals that have been called an 'unimaginative cereal box' and 'a street going nowhere' will be debated.

Applications to build a 752-home, 25- and 50-storey towers on Great Ancoats Street drew the ire of critics at the last planning meeting (November 21), with one lambasting the skyscrapers as 'another unimaginative cereal box'.

"I do not think I have seen a proposal brought forward with utter contempt for councillors in the area, for residents, and for the council's policies," Piccadilly Coun Sam Wheeler, Labour, said. "This breaks the framework SimpsonHaugh wrote by four storeys. That topped out at 45 storeys and this is taller than that.

"So we are seeing, at the first development, you can ignore the [strategic regeneration framework

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