There's nothing we can do to stop green space developers

Council boss says there's no way to prevent legally permissible' building on city centre green space if it doesn't own it

- ETHAN DAVIES

MANCHESTER'S top politician has said there was 'nothing' the council could have done to prevent building on one of the city centre's few green spaces.

New Islington Green is set to become Electric Park, a new office complex for small and medium sized businesses.

It will feature 2.5 acres of green space - but will sit on what was four acres of grassland.

Although bosses say this new, smaller green area will be of higher quality and improve biodiversity by 30 per cent, residents say the work is 'terrible' for the area.

Furthermore, an opposition councillor has also called for a new park to be built in the vicinity to make up for the loss.