OMI Architects has won planning for 55-storey tower that will be Salford’s tallest building.

One Heritage Tower, for the private-rented sector, will overtake the same practice’s 44-storey Anaconda Cut, which topped out in March 2018.

OMI said its 173m scheme, earmarked for Greengate just across the River Irwell from Manchester city centre, would include 545 homes ranging from one-bed flats to duplexes and penthouses, as well as a residents’ lounge, a rooftop garden, a pavilion, a gym and a library. There is a 15-storey element as well as the main tower.

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