Plans for more than 400 new homes across Manchester have become the latest to be signed off by the council’s chief executive - instead of the city’s planning committee.
Joanne Roney has given the go ahead to ‘much-needed’ council housing in Newton Heath, while approving a controversial city centre tower block which will offer no affordable flats.
Other approved developments include an ‘extra care’ facility for over-55s in Moss Side and a huge 25-storey residential tower near Piccadilly railway station.
Ms Roney, together with input from planning committee chair and vice chair Coun Basil Curley and Coun Nasrin Ali, has control over planning decisions during the coronavirus pandemic.