OMI Architects has won planning for 55-storey residential tower that will be the tallest building in Salford.

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-tall 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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