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The Store Street Aqueduct in central Manchester, England, was built in 1798 by Benjamin Outram on the Ashton Canal.A Grade II* listed building, [1] it is built on a skew of 40° across Store Street, and is believed to be the first major aqueduct of its kind in Great Britain and the oldest still in use today.
The site, a car park on a railway viaduct to the rear of Piccadilly station [4] between Store Street and Ducie Street was purchased by Inacity for £14 million in 2003. [5] The planning application was submitted in 2004 [6] and was approved in March 2005. [2] The cost of the development is around £220 million. [2]
Manchester Piccadilly is accessible for disabled people and has escalators and lifts to all levels, wide-access doors and gates, braille signs, hearing loops and disabled toilet facilities. [citation needed] Cycle racks are available on Fairfield Street and the long-stay car park and next to the tower block at the station front.
In 2017, the Merseyway car park to the north of the centre (between Princes Street and the M60 motorway) was developed as the Light cinema and Redrock leisure centre. [5] At the beginning of 2022, it was announced that portions of the Merseyway's Adlington Walk would be repurposed to add additional facilities and a new library.
The stop is located on Lord Sheldon Way near the Ashton Moss leisure complex and Snipe Retail Park on Ashton New Road. [2] Ashton Moss tram stop is served by a Park + Ride car park, with electric vehicle parking facilities. A short lived railway station with the same name existed in the area, and was open from 1861 to 1862.
At the High Street end was a two-floor market area. Cannon Street was bridged by a mall at the Corporation Street end and underpassed by a tunnel at the High Street end. There was a continuous pathway around the centre, but not at a single level. At the High Street end a multi-storey car park was sited above the market centre and Cannon Street ...
The Hulme Arch Bridge over Princess Road. The original scheme for a new road through the rural area south of Manchester was the design of the urban planner Richard Barry Parker, who envisaged the creation of a parkway – a broad, landscaped highway – to run from the new garden suburb of Wythenshawe, connecting it with Manchester City Centre.
According to Historic England, the warehouse is a "unique survival of a three-way railway goods exchange station, serving the railway, canal and road networks of the Manchester region." [1] As of February 2023, the development includes an Odeon Cinema, casino, restaurants, bars, bowling alley, gym, and a multi-storey car park.