Drivers Jonas LLP and architects Bennetts Associates are to unveil a Strategic Regeneration Framework (SRF) which sets out a vision for how the area around Manchester’s Piccadilly Station could be transformed into a new home for 5,000 civil service jobs.

The development would aim to bring together staff from across Greater Manchester with others relocating out of London and the South East under the Government’s Operational Efficiency Programme commitments. The feasibility study, which is looking at the viability of the proposed new civil service campus, is due to report in February.

You can get all the information about "the first major Manchester regeneration scheme of the new decade" HERE and also give your comments about what you think about the plans - all comments will be looked at and included in a post-consultation report.

Key to the masterplan is the creation of a public park (artist's impression pictured) – intended to be one of the largest open spaces in Manchester City Centre - alongside the River Medlock. It will bring to life the Mayfield area and open up a new approach to the city.

Drivers Jonas has acted both as project managers, coordinating the feasibility study, and, as consultants advising on occupational agency, planning and development and strategic consultancy matters.

John Adams, partner from Drivers Jonas, said: “Mayfield will harness the civil service campus’ potential to transform one of the few remaining areas of Manchester City Centre that is in significant need of regeneration. “It will create a new gateway to the city with a world-class public realm and pioneering sustainable buildings delivering Government carbon reduction commitments and Manchester’s action plan to become a leading low carbon city by 2020.”

The masterplan has been prepared in consultation with Office for Government Commerce, Government Office for the North West, Manchester City Council, Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive and other stakeholders.

Liz Meek, regional director for Government Office for the North West, said: “The benefits of the proposed civil service campus are clear. We are able to create greater efficiencies by redeveloping Government land at the same time as regenerating an important part of the city centre.”

A spokesman for BRBR said: “This document establishes guiding principles for the future of Mayfield and sets out in detail how this now largely neglected area of the city centre can be transformed by the imaginative use of land currently owned by the Government as a catalyst.”