EXCLUSIVE: Manchester town hall chiefs have written to the Ministry of Justice about HMP Manchester
Manchester city council has contacted the Government to call for Strangeways prison to be closed and relocated out of Manchester, we can exclusively reveal today.
READ MORE: Row over plans for late night Metrolink tram trial that 'cuts across side of Manchester' Designed by architect Alfred Waterhouse, who also designed Manchester Town Hall, the Grade II-listed prison on Southall Street opened in June 1868 and is now more than 150 years old. The council argues Strangeways' location in the city centre is acting as a 'barrier to growth and development' and said it planned to unveil a masterplan for the area by next Spring.
Councillor Bev Craig, leader of Manchester City Council, said the council has, for some time, harboured a desire to move the prison, but its relocation was now being actively pursed with central Government. "At the moment its city centre location acts as a barrier to growth and development which could bring new jobs, much-needed houses and green space.
Rebuilt following the infamous prison riot of 1990, the biggest disturbance in prison service history, Strangeways is one of the country's largest, high-security prisons for men and has capacity for almost 700 inmates, although its actual population now is thought to be far less than that.
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