Manchester’s top politician has said there was ‘nothing’ the council could have done to prevent building on New Islington Green.
The Green is set to become Electric Park, a new office complex for small and medium sized businesses. It will feature 2.5 acres of green space — but will sit on what was four acres of grassland.
Although bosses say this new, smaller green area will be of higher quality and improve biodiversity by 30 percent, residents say the work is ‘terrible’ for the area. Furthermore , an opposition councillor has also called for a new park to be built in the vicinity to make up for the loss.
