Campaigners say local people feel 'ignored once more' after fresh plans for the future of former retail park in Manchester city centre are approved. The former Central Retail Park off Great Ancoats Street is set to be turned into a huge office complex with a green space open to the public in the middle of it.
But some have called for the whole site - which is located next to a primary school - to be turned into a park. It comes after local group Trees Not Cars quashed a council decision to temporarily use it as a car park in the courts.
Since then, under new leadership, the town hall has published new plans for the site where the former Toys R Us and Argos stores have been flattened. Campaigners have praised council leader Bev Craig for her 'dedication' to improving green spaces in the city centre proven by new plans to improve Ancoats Green as well as the opening the new Mayfield Park in September.
