Manctopia

[dirky dirk]

Anyone seen this advertised?

All about the booming houses in central manchester

Looks good

[pistonheadforum]

Watched the first two - found it really interesting. I do wonder how things are lookin now given this seems to be filmed last year. Now not many people needing a des res city centre flat because they are in the office/city all week and don't like the commute.

[Swervin_Mervin]

pistonheadforum said:

Watched the first two - found it really interesting. I do wonder how things are lookin now given this seems to be filmed last year. Now not many people needing a des res city centre flat because they are in the office/city all week and don't like the commute.

I doubt that many of hte residents in the centre are weekday-only with a house in the country. I expect there'll have been a bit of a hit simply because of lots of companies shedding workforce this year but, if you were still in gainful employment I can't see things having changed much. By and large the younger buyers will still want to live there, and it's increasingly attractive to the older crowd that don't have kids as well. Even that may change over time now that a proper city centre school is being established.

It's starkly different now compared to when I lived in the centre nearly 20yrs ago, and last worked there 14yrs ago. On occasion when I do go in, particularly during the working week, it never ceases to amaze me how much it's constantly changing. Part of me is a little jealous that it wasn't quite so buzzing when we lived there!

[Swervin_Mervin]

Oh and the woman in the second programme, Anne I think, was bloody hilarious on that walking tour of Manchester led by the activists. She put it so perfectly and succinctly, in a way only a Manc could.

[monthefish]

Interesting series. When I saw it advertised I thought it might be a bit 'dry' but I've enjoyed it so far.

Thought the developer chap comes across really well, but I'm a bit nervous for him and feel he might be a bit out of his depth. I'm rooting for him though.

Swervin_Mervin said:

Oh and the woman in the second programme, Anne I think, was bloody hilarious on that walking tour of Manchester led by the activists. She put it so perfectly and succinctly, in a way only a Manc could.

Absolutely. Really good to see a local with such a positive viewpoint of development.

[vdn]

Great series. Very interesting. Two of the four episodes were particularly good I thought.

With expansion unlike any other city in Europe, things don’t seem to have slowed down. I hope they do a follow up series.

[rdjohn]

I had not realised that buy-to-let was being done on an industrial scale by Pension Funds.

The follow-up is needed to explain what impact Covid has had on this vision of utopia.

Nicely contrasted with the impacts on the indigenous and homeless communities

[vixen1700]

vdn said:

Great series. Very interesting.

Agreed.

I didnt realise Manchester was going through that amount of redevelopment and building.

Do find these new developments pretty generic though, looking at it, you could be in Manchester or Stratford in East London and not have a clue where you are.
Drove through some of the developed part of Stratford yesterday and had no idea where I was considering I grew up round there.

Must be the same in Manchester.

[vdn]

vixen1700 said:

vdn said:

Great series. Very interesting.

Agreed.

I didnt realise Manchester was going through that amount of redevelopment and building.

Do find these new developments pretty generic though, looking at it, you could be in Manchester or Stratford in East London and not have a clue where you are.
Drove through some of the developed part of Stratford yesterday and had no idea where I was considering I grew up round there.

Must be the same in Manchester.

True to a large extent except, as the characterful lady stated, a lot of the development is on what was once just waste ground and no-go areas... now home to million pound homes, gyms and the like. Can’t be a bad thing! I am in Manchester a lot and I’m not exaggerating when I say the skyline seems to change, drastically, on a monthly basis. It’s insane, the population growth, tech company / corp interest in the city. I truly hope they do a follow up especially amidst the pandemic.

The developer Tim seems a nice guy with his heart in the right place - but it seems he’s become a poster boy for evil property developers, on social media.

As for Stratford, I know it relatively well and I def’ get what you’re saying about the generic nature of these new developments in general.

[snuffy]

Swervin_Mervin said:

Oh and the woman in the second programme, Anne I think, was bloody hilarious on that walking tour of Manchester led by the activists. She put it so perfectly and succinctly, in a way only a Manc could.

She had him right over a barrel. He couldn't answer her - he had one off those classic open and closing mouths, where he knows she was quite correct but he could not bring himself to admit it.

The houses in the park was good as well. A load of Nimbys demanding that some old building was restored, so matey comes along and offers to do it providing he can build some houses as well. And they all object so now they still have a tumbly down building with no one prepared to spend oany omney on it. And then the interview asks them if they are Nimbys and they all claim they are not.

And how did that bloke become the mayor of Salford ? He's clearly very uncomfortable in front of a camera/on a stage./speaking in public. Which is not what you want to be holding a public office as a mayor.

[monthefish]

snuffy said:

Swervin_Mervin said:

Oh and the woman in the second programme, Anne I think, was bloody hilarious on that walking tour of Manchester led by the activists. She put it so perfectly and succinctly, in a way only a Manc could.

She had him right over a barrel. He couldn't answer her - he had one off those classic open and closing mouths, where he knows she was quite correct but he could not bring himself to admit it.

The houses in the park was good as well. A load of Nimbys demanding that some old building was restored, so matey comes along and offers to do it providing he can build some houses as well. And they all object so now they still have a tumbly down building with no one prepared to spend oany omney on it. And then the interview asks them if they are Nimbys and they all claim they are not.

snuffy said:

Swervin_Mervin said:

Oh and the woman in the second programme, Anne I think, was bloody hilarious on that walking tour of Manchester led by the activists. She put it so perfectly and succinctly, in a way only a Manc could.

She had him right over a barrel. He couldn't answer her - he had one off those classic open and closing mouths, where he knows she was quite correct but he could not bring himself to admit it.

The houses in the park was good as well. A load of Nimbys demanding that some old building was restored, so matey comes along and offers to do it providing he can build some houses as well. And they all object so now they still have a tumbly down building with no one prepared to spend oany omney on it. And then the interview asks them if they are Nimbys and they all claim they are not.

I thought that the developers could have done a better job of explaining their vision, perhaps with some visuals showing how much of the park wasn't being developed.

[monthefish]

vdn said:

The developer Tim seems a nice guy with his heart in the right place - but it seems he’s become a poster boy for evil property developers, on social media.

Yes, that was all quite misleading; he was being portrayed as a one-man-band solo developer, local-boy-done-good, but that was not the case at all...