{"id":691411,"date":"2026-01-12T16:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691411\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:27:07","slug":"townhouses-planned-next-to-manchester-science-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/691411\/","title":{"rendered":"Townhouses planned next to Manchester science museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PH Property wants to bring a site off Great John Street in the city centre back into residential use for the first time since the mid-twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>The developer is progressing plans for 21 three-bed townhouses on a site next to the city\u2019s Science and Industry Museum that was once home to terraced housing.<\/p>\n<p>More recently home to the former Breeze Studios within the Granada estate, the plot could now be returned to residential use under plans designed by Jeffrey Bell Architects.<\/p>\n<p>PH has launched a<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatjohnst-consultation.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> pre-planning consultation<\/a><\/strong> on the proposals.<\/p>\n<p>Surrounding an internal courtyard, the homes would front Great John Street, Lower Byrom Street, Grape Street, and Atherton Street and would \u201cre-establish the site\u2019s historic street layout\u201d, according to PH.<\/p>\n<p>Each house would have a basement parking space and a roof terrace.<\/p>\n<p>PH is also behind plans to convert the Equitable Buildings off St Anns Square in Manchester into apartments.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Gale, land director at PH Property Holdings, said: \u201cWe are excited to bring our experience of delivering premium, design-led homes to this unique site in Manchester city centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ambition is to create a high-quality, sensitive development that complements its historic surroundings and provides new family housing in a sustainable and vibrant location.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asteer Planning, Tyler Grange, Dunham Ecology, and Counter Context make up the project team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PH Property wants to bring a site off Great John Street in the city centre back into residential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-691411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115883071955585403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691411","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=691411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}