Regeneration chief defends move to press on with town centre offices scheme
manchestereveningnews.co.ukdirect to your inboxStockport’s regeneration chief has defended the decision to press on with a scheme that will bring more offices and a new multi-storey car park to the town centre.Top councillors gave the green-light for phase four of the Stockport Exchange development at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday night.Based near the train station, it already boasts two office developments, a multi-storey car park and a 115-bedroom Holiday Inn hotel.The new phase would deliver a 64,000-sq-ft office block and a new 400-space multi-storey car park.But some have questioned whether further offices will be needed in the post-Covid era, with far more people expected to work from home.Critics also say plans to build another multi-storey car park are at odds.
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