A new Aldi, more than 700 homes and two office buildings could be given the go ahead next week when Manchester council's planning committee meets. A secondary school, a park and a community hub are also planned at the former Jackson's Brickworks site in Newton Heath where around two-thirds of the 716 homes, which are set to be built in two phases, would be affordable.
An Indian restaurant would be demolished to make way for the new £5m supermarket planned in Moston which is expected to create up to 50 jobs. And plans to build two office blocks, up to 14 storeys in height, next to Co-op's headquarters in Angel Square have also won the backing of town hall planners.
But councillors on the planning committee will have the final say next week. Aldi's application to demolish the Imperial Lounge restaurant in Victoria Avenue East to make way for a new store has been subject to 12 objections.
