It could include new technology(Image: Studio Egret West for Landsec via planning documents)

A tiny park with a funny name is set to be built in the shadow of Piccadilly Station.

Developers have announced plans to turn a 0.1 hectare plot of land, used for storage on Baring Street, into a ‘green, welcoming, and climate-resilient urban pocket park’ with 19 trees. Landsec, the developer behind the city centre’s newest park nearby, has christened the plot ‘Pigeon Triangle’.

The firm announced plans to build nearly 900 flats around Mayfield Park earlier this year, and it’s hoped creating a nicer entrance with Pigeon Triangle to the neighbourhood will draw people to larger Mayfield Park or venue Freight Island.

Henrietta Nowne, Landsec development director, said: “Innovation, nature and public space are central to the creation of the Mayfield district, these plans epitomise all that with the proposed arrival of the award-winning Avanade Intelligent Garden.

“If approved, the garden will transform a pocket of underused space outside the Depot on Fairfield Street and Travis Street, locally known as Pigeon Triangle, into a welcoming, beautiful, green space where people can spend time and enjoy being outdoors.

(Image: Studio Egret West for Landsec via planning documents)

“After delivering Mayfield Park, Manchester’s much-loved first new city centre park in more than 100 years, we see the Intelligent Garden as a natural next step. It will build on the success of the park and create a green connection between Piccadilly and Mayfield.”

Pigeon Triangle has been designed by Tom Massey, the brains behind the Avanade Intelligent Garden which won a Gold Medal at the 2025 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Parts of it will be recycled from other RHS gardens, which are currently in storage.

That’s why it could open in a few months time, Ms Nowne added: “Subject to approval, the garden could be planted as soon as mid-2026, bringing 19 new trees and thousands of flowers, plants, and shrubs into the city. It also has the capacity to include new technology developed by Avanade that helps trees communicate with our gardener, supporting healthier growth in what is a busy city centre place.”

You can view and comment on the plans online until January 9 here.