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Manchester City Centre Strategic Plan 2008-2012
Preface
Manchesters city centre has undergone a remarkable transformation over the last decade. High quality new buildings and strong urban design have helped create a distinctive and emphatically contemporary city centre which embodies the wholesale renaissance which is swiftly evident to the increasing numbers of visitors flocking to Manchester. There is a discernable buzz about the city a sense of confidence and ambition, and a bolstering of the already strong pride in being Mancunian.
This re-making of our city centre has already brought many benefits to Manchester and its surrounding city-region. We have worked hard to ensure balanced development, and shaped growth to make sure that there is compatibility of supply with demand in all retail, commercial, residential and leisure ventures. We have sought out and captured new investment, thereby retaining market dynamism, and ambitious but realistic objectives are being delivered through a wide range of effective partnerships with city centre stakeholders
We invite you to see how your enterprise fits in with our vision and how it can benefit from synergy with the plans of other partners.
This Plan
looks forward to 2012,
sets out a long term vision for how we want the city centre to be,
highlights the specific keys to the development of particular localities, and,
identifies what needs to be done to make the vision a reality.
We now challenge you to join us, and ask yourself, what can I contribute to the next chapter of the success story that is Manchester city centre?