Plans for another 2,000 city centre apartments to be decided next week – including transforming former Boddingtons brewery site

The proposals include hundreds of flats at the old Boddingtons site, 603 flats at the former Sound Control site, and a 51-storey skyscraperPlans for another 2,000 city centre apartments are to go before planners next week – including a long-awaited overhaul of the former Boddingtons brewery site and a 51-storey skyscraper.Hundreds of new flats could be built on the old brewery land in Strangeways , which has been a car park for over a decade, if the latest proposals are given the go ahead on Thursday (June 28).Two new Renaker residential blocks, one of them taller than the Beetham, are also earmarked for the border of Hulme and Castlefield.In Cornbrook, property giant Peel is proposing new apartments and a hotel near the tram stop, along with improvements to the dilapidated surrounding area.Plans for another 2,000 city centre apartments are to go before planners next weekAll three plans represent major regeneration priorities for the council as it seeks to fill in large vacant brownfield sites around the fringes of the city centre.None are set to include any affordable housing, according to officers, although developers will be asked to pay for some elsewhere.Meanwhile on New Wakefield Street, student accommodation firm Unite wants to add two stories and 30 flats to a block of apartments previously approved for the former Sound Control site.