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Councillors approve plan to demolish 250-year-old listed Northern Quarter cottages that they rejected last year

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Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Manchester’s planning committee has overturned its decision to stop the demolition of 250-year-old derelict cottages in the Northern Quarter in a move described as a ‘cowardly and unconscionable surrender’.

Real Estate Investment Partnership (REIP) had been refused planning permission to replace the three Grade II-listed buildings on Thomas Street with flats in September 2020.

Councillors believed that the loss of the weavers’ cottages to the Warp and Weft scheme would cause ‘irreversible harm’ - but on Wednesday the majority of the committee voted in favour of identical proposals.

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