Now I know that these pictures were taken in the closing days of December 2020, just a day in advance of Tier 4, but they seem appropriate for today, the first day of 2021.
The building boom which has been going on a pace across the twin cities shows no sign of slowing down, despite Covid and the restrictions which make city centre living so much fun.
Of course, many of these developments will have been in the pipeline a long time before Victor Virus showed up, and in a way are no different from the property boom of the late 18th and early 19th century which transformed Manchester and Salford from elegant Georgian towns into the shock cities of the Industrial Revolution.
But I wonder how long the market can be sustained, and how many people are still out there ready to buy into city centre living.
The forest of cranes would suggest that the smart money is confident it will continue for a while yet, and I have to say that on and off for a full decade I have predicted the bubble would burst.
So there you are that is it …. We shall see.
Location; Pomona,
Pictures, at Pomona, 2020, from the collection of Andy Robertson
Sincerely hope it won’t bust, but it feels too good to be true. Hopefully those regeneration sites like the Mayfield project will come to fruition.
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