The gold-medal-winning garden will help create a green route between Mayfield Park and Piccadilly Station...
A gold-medal-winning RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden is set to be installed at Mayfield, as plans to create a green corridor between Mayfield Park and Piccadilly Station move forward.
The garden, designed by Tom Massey Studio and Je Ahn of Studio Weave for the 2025 RHS Chelsea Flower Show, has been reimagined for Manchester by Studio Egret West, the masterplanners behind the Mayfield district and designers of Mayfield Park.
It will sit between the 6.5-acre park and Piccadilly Station, adding public seating and a place for people to pause among new planting.
Duncan Paybody, landscape director at Studio Egret West, said: “Our reimagining of the Chelsea Garden follows the core principles of the design of Mayfield Park with a powerful ambition to act as a threshold where Mayfield touches the city centre, and where industrial character and emerging urban nature meet.
“It weaves reclaimed materials, local stone, water-sensitive design and ecological planting into a compact space, demonstrating how even the smallest public space can contribute to a resilient and distinctly Mancunian landscape.”
Work to pedestrianise and landscape Baring Street is also close to completion, with the route expected to further strengthen the link between the park and Manchester’s main train station.
Councillor Bev Craig, leader of Manchester City Council, said: “I’m so happy to see Mayfield Park growing. We can see how the journey from Picadilly to this new part of the city will be fully green before too long. This fits beautifully with our ambition to connect Manchester’s nature and waterways through the CyanLines project making our city one of the most walkable in the UK.”
The plans come as Mayfield has been highlighted in a new report from the TRUUD research programme, led by Henley Business School, which estimates the completed development could generate £274 million in health economic savings over 25 years.
Revised plans have also been submitted to Manchester City Council for The Poulton, the district’s second office building, alongside a separate transport hub with 380 bike parking spaces.
Henrietta Nowne, development director at Landsec, on behalf of The Mayfield Partnership, said: “The growth of Mayfield Park is key to our plans for the next few years. From the hundreds of thousands of people who have visited our park since it opened in 2022, we have heard loud and clear how much people value green space in Manchester. Our vision is to grow it even more as we build this fantastic new part of the city.
“The combination of heritage, nature and world-class buildings will make Mayfield a very special place to do business, the continued expansion of the park towards Piccadilly and updated proposals for the next buildings mark another step in delivering a well-connected, green neighbourhood in the heart of Manchester.”
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