I hear this project has financial issues. All contractors pulled off site. No on going works. Supposed to be a 20 year project, not a good start on one of the first builds. Sounding like a nightmare. A third sold but the rest may never be finished. Could they go bankrupt before they finish?

I moved from Manchester to Spain six years ago. I miss it terribly but when I visited a couple of years ago, I barely recognised the place due to all these new buildings that had popped up.

Yes to pricing and interiors where possible. Thank you. Love Circle Square Manchester we drop in to 'North' or one of the eateries round there on our way to gigs at YES to watch live music.

Thank for this, very interesting update and information. Hope other derelict former offices around the roundabout area near St. Peters Square are going to be transformed into 'affordable housing' for local people too🙏

10-15 years, those new buildings will look like east germany. They are destroying heritage and replacing it with temporary bling. This is happening all over the country and should be outlawed.

We are reaching peak gentrification of Manchester. ‘Victoria North’ = Miles Platting.

You make amazing videos and are always accurate in what you report. I get Stockport needs more properties, but it always seems to be flats. Worst still the rentals prices seem more expensive than Manchester city centre? I do however think the extra footfall in the town center will help the town center. (That's if they can afford to go out after paying the rent)

Great video Aidan. I've just moved to Edgeley near the stadium and its exciting to see all these new developments. Hopefully the view of the viaduct isn't blocked any further.

I agree with you in that there's lot's of cool things happening in Stockport which are for the better, but they should be building on enhancing their most interesting assets, of which of course the viaduct is a big one. Would like to see the council putting focus on developing to enhance it's features rather than hiding them. Smaller buildings with some squares at key points to allow viewing the viaduct in nice vantage points would be most ideal, but this sort of consideration rarely seems to cross their minds.

Just stumbled across your channel and im really enjoying your content. I cant believe the Toaster Rack is been voted an ugly building 😢

I was raised in Stockport (woodley) and moved away in ‘84, I was shocked when I visited in November last year (to visit my dad) how much had changed.

I’m surprised you left out the planned redevelopment of Stockport County FC’s Edgeley Park Stadium (not a county fan BTW) as work I suppose to start this year at the time of posting with a new stand housing away fans being built with the rest of the ground being redeveloped. If any Stockport fans wish to correct me, feel free to free.

I don't know if this is something you've thought about, but it might be interesting for you to develop your visibility on short videos, both Instagram and TikTok and to make Lives as you walk around Manchester and show us specifically different places

These multigenerational flats sound interesting. I wonder why they are aiming it towards young and old people

Stockport is doing amazingly. I see Man United have been given the go ahead for the new stadium and Everton have completed theirs (i'm not into football but). Leeds has some amazing developments and the tram noise is getting louder. Birmingham is progressing too. Those paintings are wonderful. As for the tall residentials. People need places to live of course.

That pub-to-greggs drive thru transformation was one of the most depressing things I've ever seen

I’m glad to see Stockport improving. In the late 90s I had a part time job in urban art at the council for a short while. To say they were ‘pedestrian’ would be the understatement of the year. Obstacles were put in the way of everything one tried to do and anything out of the ordinary or ‘modern’ was viewed with the utmost suspicion. This extended to myself as I also worked in Manchester. My colleagues never ventured into the ‘big city’ despite being only a few minutes away and regarded anything or anyone associated with it as flashy and metropolitan! I recall discussing some of the new architecture beginning to appear in the city centre and the response was a ‘well, they WOULD do things like that in “that Manchester”’. Fortunately times seem to have changed for the better! 😂

I heard Robinson's were reopening the pineapple inn (the chunky) on Heaton lane. That was the best pint of unicorn in Stockport when it was open.

What's "controvasy?"

The concept of mixing social housing with the private sector has never and will never work. The social housing drags down the value of the private sector. On the whole the private sector is far better maintained because the owners have equity in the property. Re-visit this Collyhurst Village in forty years time and the social housing will be a slum with no one wishing to live there. It is impossible to escape the facts of life.

+++ The Lidl Supermarket was rejected by Stockport Council 28 Jan 2024 +++ Another video is ready. This one deals with a topic that is close to me. New buildings threaten to hide views of Stockport's historic and magnificent railway viaduct. I'm interested to hear people's views, but keep them respectful. Thank you.

I never knew Karl Marx met Engles at Chatham's library. What a weird thing.

I can't imagine living in one of those towers. I cant think of a more soulless way to live. No garden, nowhere to sit out in the sun, nothing but glass and concrete to look at. It's not a healthy lifestyle. I prefer grass to concrete

I still think Birmingham City Centre looks better . Manchester looks a mess.

Love your videos, thank you for taking the time and all of the effort to make them, it's much appreciated.

Those rental prices are ridiculous.

Very interesting Aidan

grate housing for pepule but its but its for wealthiest not social all well and good building all thies but its for rich investors

Take a look at MMU new building and the public park that excludes the public All SAINTS PARK

The 'Collyhurst Village' looks nightmarish.

Middleton rochdale is run down Warwick mill all this need updating.

I have got some of the old wooden seating from this baptist chapel it was all put in a skip. Smashed up so I grab some of it. Not sure what to make from it yet.

Who can afford those prices ? I have no idea how ordinary people manage to survive.

So ugly. Boring. Ugh. All flat roofs no shape

National insurance was supposed to be for healthcare, road tax was supposed to be for road maintenance

Unfortunately the bus " service " in North Manchester is still rubbish in that it is extremely unreliable . If they turn up at all, that is . And the attitude of so many of the drivers is still horrendous and frequently extremely racist . So many of the drivers do not even bother hiding their hate and disgust at having to deal with white people . And of course the worst offenders are inevitably very peaceful - even to people of colour who are not " peaceful " .

I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoy these videos! As an interior architect from Canada, soon to be relocating to Manchester, I am thrilled at the sheer volume of new construction and the high quality of the new buildings. I very much like the mention of rental costs, as I will be living in one of these high-rise towers in the coming months!

Architect working on Manchester City centre projects here. On your question about why so much brick and not much colour, it’s to do with the current head of MC council planning department. He has a very strong preference for brick and is known to basically shut down projects with materials that could ’spook’ the council. So after a few planning consultations we’ve decided to just follow his advice and go with brick for now, until he retires next year. So expect to see more colour in submissions from next year generally. (I would note however that I support the move to brick being the standard again to create more homogeny in the city)

4 New Bailey - can we get a petition going to rename it “The Borg Cube” ? 😅

“The old, quietly swept away”. So true, Aidan, except that the current flood of development doesn’t feel so quiet: I’d describe it more like overwhelming (or, as you’ve heard me call the Simpson Haugh contributions, a plague of Japanese knotweed). At the prices that you describe, it is hard to believe that the rental market can support such rapid and massive expansion: are there really so many professionals arriving in central Manchester, or are these just investment opportunities? And where are the affordable options for key (and other) workers and their families? If this is where Collyhurst fits in, then let’s hope it is the first of many similar developments around the city centre - for example, Holt Town, which I read about a couple of days ago. So, yes please, do keep reporting on rental values; and it would also be very interesting to include take-up rates for the flats, if these are available, so that we can get a feeling for the viability of these buildings. On the subject of architects, the Island Office Building on John Dalton Street is a real standout: thank you, Cartwright Pickard! (See www.cartwrightpickard.com/workplace/island/). I really hope we will be seeing much more of this kind of sensitive, relevant and appropriate building work. (PS no personal connection.) Another excellent episode, Aidan: keep up the great work! 👏👏👏

"public ameanity"

Why do you think they want so many people renting in GM apartment blocks? Is this the Smart City agenda?