Green light for £250m water wellbeing centre in Manchester

Trafford Council planners have given the green light to build the UK’s first city-based wellbeing resort in Manchester.The £250m Therme Manchester scheme will combine hundreds of water-based activities with wellbeing treatments, art, nature and technology to create a unique experience forecast to attract up to two million visitors per year.Backer Therme Group hopes to open the 28-acre resort in 2023.It will be built opposite intu Trafford Centre next to Barton Square, with a Metrolink station directly outside.EventCity, which currently occupies part of the site, will be relocated and redeveloped as an events venue in TraffordCity.Therme Manchester’s natural environment, with thousands of plants and trees, will be “created by world-leading designers, artists, architects and engineers to achieve the highest levels of experience, quality and sustainability.”The heart of the project is a two-acre wellbeing garden in the shape of a Rose.A large family zone will include waterslides, a wave pool, indoor and outdoor pools and steam rooms.A dedicated adults’ area will have warm-water lagoons among spectacular botanical gardens, swim-up bars, therapeutic mineral baths and steam rooms and saunas.