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(Image: Studio Egret West for Landsec via planning documents)<\/p>\nIt could include new technology(Image: Studio Egret West for Landsec via planning documents)<\/p>\n
A tiny park with a funny name is set to be built in the shadow of Piccadilly Station.<\/p>\n
Developers have announced plans to turn a 0.1 hectare plot of land, used for storage on Baring Street, into a \u2018green, welcoming, and climate-resilient urban pocket park\u2019 with 19 trees. Landsec, the developer behind the city centre\u2019s newest park nearby, has christened the plot \u2018Pigeon Triangle\u2019.<\/p>\n
The firm announced plans to build nearly 900 flats around Mayfield Park earlier this year, and it\u2019s hoped creating a nicer entrance with Pigeon Triangle to the neighbourhood will draw people to larger Mayfield Park or venue Freight Island.<\/p>\n
Henrietta Nowne, Landsec development director, said: \u201cInnovation, 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf 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.<\/p>\n
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(Image: Studio Egret West for Landsec via planning documents)<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter delivering Mayfield Park, Manchester\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why it could open in a few months time, Ms Nowne added: \u201cSubject 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.\u201d<\/p>\n