{"id":99714,"date":"2021-09-27T14:47:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T13:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=99714"},"modified":"2021-09-27T14:47:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T13:47:48","slug":"island-manchester-planning-permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/island-manchester-planning-permission\/99714\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester\u2019s Island secures planning permission"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Joint venture partners, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmpf.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greater Manchester Pension Fund<\/a> (GMPF) and property developer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryboot.co.uk\/our-businesses\/hbd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HBD<\/a>, have secured detailed planning permission for Island, their 100,000 sq ft net zero office building in Manchester<\/h2>\n<p>Occupying an entire city block site in the central business district and surrounded by King Street, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/lendlease-town-hall-refurb\/50647\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester Town Hall<\/a> and Spinningfields, Island will comprise 10-storeys with a roof terrace and be HBD\u2019s first net zero carbon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/birminghams-first-smart-building\/92747\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">smart enabled building<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avisonyoung.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Avison Young<\/a> is advising GMPF and also acts as planning consultant on the project. Joint agents for the scheme are OBI and Avison Young. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartwrightpickard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cartwright Pickard<\/a> is the architect for Island and Gardiner &amp; Theobald is engaged as project manager.<\/p>\n<p>Construction is scheduled to start on site in 2022.<\/p>\n<h3>Making steps towards a net zero carbon future<\/h3>\n<p>Adam Brady, executive director at HBD, said: \u201cHaving the opportunity to deliver our first net zero carbon building is a major deal for us and something we\u2019re very proud to be doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the potential to push the boundaries of what\u2019s possible here and believe this is an important step towards a net zero carbon future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsland has been designed to embrace a new hybrid model of working; where seamless technology combines with a scheme design which will enable people to work fluidly.\u00a0 We look forward to bringing this to market for forward thinking occupiers who share our ambition and values.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joint venture partners Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) and property developer HBD have secured detailed planning permission for Island,\u00a0their 100,000 sq ft office building in Manchester city centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[997,430,17747,93645],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-99714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-energy-news","7":"tag-development","8":"tag-energy-efficiency","9":"tag-manchester","10":"tag-net-zero"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Manchester\u2019s Island secures planning permission<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Greater Manchester Pension Fund and HBD have secured detailed planning permission for Island, their 100,000 sq ft net zero office building in Manchester\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/island-manchester-planning-permission\/99714\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Manchester\u2019s Island secures planning permission\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Greater Manchester Pension Fund and HBD have secured detailed planning permission for Island, their 100,000 sq ft net zero office building in Manchester\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/island-manchester-planning-permission\/99714\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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