A flagship office building to be built as part of the first phase of the transformational £1.4bn Mayfield development in Manchester city centre.

The Mayfield Partnership is to submitted a planning application in the autumn for a 12-storey office building comprising approximately 220,000 sq ft of Grade A workspace on the Baring Street Campus.

James Heather, Development Director for U+I and the Mayfield Partnership said: “Our vision is for a truly outstanding place to work and play.

“Manchester is a first-class location for businesses and we need the confidence to deliver high quality workspace and maintain a pipeline of premium office development to attract further inward investment to our city.”

The project is being brought forward by the Mayfield Partnership, a joint venture, comprising LCR the UK Government’s commercial developer, Manchester City Council, Transport for Greater Manchester and regeneration specialist U+I.

The wider Mayfield regeneration vision will potentially provide 1,500 homes, 155,000 sq m of office space, a 650-bedroom hotel, retail and leisure space. It is envisaged Mayfield will create more than 10,000 office, retail, leisure and construction jobs.