Designs for the ‘new’ Piccadilly Gardens will be released in September with ‘features people liked in the old days’.

For years, the area has been plagued by anti-social behaviour, drug dealing, and addiction issues, sparking widespread pleas from Mancs for the council and police to clean-up the area and make it more attractive.

Manchester council began work to revamp the 10-acre public square since 2022, with architects LDA Design Studio winning a competition to oversee the redesign in July 2023.

To see planning applications; traffic and road diversions and layout changes; and more, visit the Public Notices Portal HERE

However, the project has stalled after the estimated costs spiralled beyond the initial £25m budget, the Local Democracy Reporting Service revealed in May , when a

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