{"id":619726,"date":"2025-12-08T09:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/619726\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:10:25","slug":"views-sought-on-chinese-backed-mix-manchester-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/619726\/","title":{"rendered":"Views sought on Chinese-backed Mix Manchester plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"mfp-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/assets\/news_articles\/2025\/12\/1765178797_mix-siteoutline-01--43-.jpg\" title=\"Outline of the Mix Manchester site\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/750x500_top_1765178797_mix-siteoutline-01--43-.jpg\" alt=\"Outline of the Mix Manchester site\" class=\"captioned-image__image responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nOutline of the Mix Manchester site<\/p>\n<p>A six-week public consultation for phase one of Mix Manchester launches today, Monday 8th \u00a0December 2025, giving residents, businesses and stakeholders the opportunity to shape plans for a science, innovation and manufacturing campus by Manchester Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The planning application for phase one of Mix Manchester is being prepared a joint venture of Beijing Construction Engineering Group (BCEG) with Manchester Airports Group (MAG), Manchester City Council (MCC) and Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF).<\/p>\n<p>A final planning application is set to be lodged with Manchester City Council in early 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Phase one of Mix Manchester aims to deliver 6,750 sqm of \u2018mid-tech\u2019 space across three buildings comprising 11 workspaces in total, plus an amenity space. This phase will also have a multi-storey car park with ground-floor commercial space.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/redirect\/campaign\/12782\/\" title=\"Related Information\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" class=\"lazy\" alt=\"Related Information\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765185025_768_38334-1751562706-32569 8008E Construction Index Banners REVB - Run of site 1456x180 2.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The planning application will be submitted as a hybrid application, seeking full planning permission for the mid-tech units and a multi-storey car park, as well as outline planning permission for future development areas across the wider site, totalling more than 100,000 sqm of flexible hybrid commercial space\u00a0 with medium and large scale manufacturing, to be delivered in later phases.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Fleet, development manager for Mix Manchester, said: \u201cAs we move forward with planning for\u00a0 Mix Manchester, it\u2019s important that the voices of residents, the local business community and other relevant stakeholders inform our ambitious plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an extremely significant development for Greater Manchester, driven by a dynamic joint venture partnership, with the full backing of the Council and funding from central government, so we really encourage people to share their views and help us bring these plans to life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Details of the proposals are available on the consultation website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mix-manchester.com\/consultation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.mix-manchester.com\/consultation<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"margin-top--md margin-bottom--md\"><b>Got a story?<\/b> Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/news\/view\/mailto:news@theconstructionindex.co.uk?subject=News%20Story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news@theconstructionindex.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outline of the Mix Manchester site A six-week public consultation for phase one of Mix Manchester launches today,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,33973,41585,5168,41582,41583,41584,41581,41580,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-619726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-building","10":"tag-civil-engineering","11":"tag-construction","12":"tag-construction-companies","13":"tag-construction-contractors","14":"tag-construction-contracts","15":"tag-construction-jobs","16":"tag-construction-news","17":"tag-england","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-manchester","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115683175745341530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}