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A 'milestone' vision for real change to the sprawling 'city fringe' area around Strangeways reveals plans for seven new and distinct neighbourhoods.

Council bosses in Manchester have also repeated a plea to the Government to consider again the relocation of Strangeways prison, saying the almost 20-acre site of HMP Manchester 'offers a truly transformational opportunity to create a new city quarter'.

The town hall argues the Victorian jail's listed buildings could be re-used 'to provide potential innovation and economic uses', calling Strangeways as it is a 'barrier to the economic and physical growth of the city centre'.

The plans to create what was called a 'significant regeneration initiative' to breathe new life into an area spanning more than 320 acres on Salford's bo

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