Delivering Manchester’s first new park in over 100 years
Success story: Deloitte
300 TONNES CO2e SAVED DURING CONSTRUCTION, PROCUREMENT AND OPERATION
1 TONNE CO2e SEQUESTERED PER YEAR FROM THE 140 NEW TREES ALONE
Mayfield is a £1.4bn commercial-led regeneration scheme in Manchester City Centre, which is an exemplar of brownfield regeneration. The first element of this scheme is the 6.5-acre Mayfield Park, which completed construction in September 2022. The park is centred around the newly-exposed River Medlock and incorporates complex flood mitigation measures to ensure that areas of the River Medlock both upstream and downstream are not flooded by new development taking place at Mayfield.
By re-using all site-won materials and remediating these on-site as engineering fill, a significant amount of embodied carbon was saved during the construction process. The proposals also reutilized the old Victorian wells, to provide irrigation and cleaning for the park, as well as locally-sourced materials for the play park and re-purposed dockyard fenders for the furniture.
The park will become the future sustainable heart of this new city centre neighbourhood. Demonstrating how sustainability can be at the heart of brownfield regeneration.
“Mayfield Park represents the first new park in Manchester City Centre in over 100 years, a crucial milestone in a new era of sustainable development within the city. As the Manchester City Region continues to be a national leading hub for property development, Mayfield demonstrates how green and publicly accessible open spaces can form a critical part into regeneration plans, ultimately helping to build a city where humans and the wider natural world can form a mutually beneficial relationship with one another.”
Michael Percival, Assistant Director, Deloitte