The Manchester set where Coronation Street was filmed for over thirty years is set to be demolished to make way for a new new office and flats complex.
The long-running ITV soap was made in the Quay Street site from 1982 until January 2014. Production moved to MediaCityUK at Salford Quays and now Developer Allied London plans to build flats, shops and offices there.
The development will feature a new £110m theatre and arts venue called The Factory.
Despite a campaign and a petition signed by over 2,000 people to save the site, Manchester City Council's planning committee voted to approve the redevelopment at a meeting last Thursday, October 15.
The BBC reports that campaigners had called on developers to retain the Victorian terrace featuring the Rovers Return Inn and the soap's corner shop in their regeneration of the 13-acre site.
English Heritage rejected the application for listed status for the old Granada Studios site made by an anonymous individual in 2012 because it was not considered sufficiently historic.
