Plans to redesign popular venue Victoria Warehouse - where overcrowding complaints have been made in recent years - have been tabled. Bosses have submitted a planning application to reconfigure the existing complex, made up of three early 20th-century warehouses and ancillary buildings.
If approved, there will be a 200-room hotel, as well as external alterations; a roof terrace; and a seven-storey multi-storey car park boasting 183 spaces in the eastern warehouse. In the western warehouse, there would be a change of use of the second and third floors for corporate events space - including a glazed extension to the roof; a new glazed entrance; external lifts; and other internal and external alterations.
In the central warehouse, the existing event space will get a new roof. As reported by the Manchester Evening News last October, fans at a Paulo Nutini show claimed it was overcrowded, with some people having to be carried out.
