Its just scooped a double whammy at the National Television Awards and now you can see where the magic was made.

The Coronation Street cobbles, at Manchester’s Granada Studios, are to open as a visitor attraction in April after planners gave the green light for public tours of Britain’s most famous street.

The experience, which is due to run for six months from April to October, will offer fans a ‘final, privileged visit’ to the set, where 53 years of TV history was made.

Corrie producers moved filming and production to Salford Quays’ Media City in November, leaving the Quay Street site redundant.

The wider Granada Studios complex was bought by developers Allied London and Manchester council in a £26.5m deal last year and will ultimately form part of a blueprint for a new city centre neighbourhood.

It is to be re-branded ‘Old Granada Studios’ in the meantime, Allied announced today.

As reported in the M.E.N last year, ITV bosses - who submitted plans to Manchester town hall planners for the Corrie tour - are hoping to attract in the region of 1,000 visitors a day to the soap’s former home.

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Fans, who will be taken round in groups, will be offered the chance to take a look back at the Street’s history, bringing to life some of its best loved characters and props.

They will also take a peek behind the doors of some of the famous cast members’ dressing rooms in a section named ‘The Corridor of Stars’ and enter the Green Room which offers at look at Corrie’s future.

The attraction will also feature a tour of Stage One where guests can see first hand some of the soap’s best-known sets before stepping out on to the cobbles where they can explore the gardens and alleyways of Corrie’s famous residents.

There will also be themed stopping points highlighting TV moments, behind the scenes techniques and production, according to plans.

The planning application, which has now won the green light from town hall planners, allows for tours to take place throughout the day with an option for corporate hire in the evenings.

Prices have not yet been announced.

There are also proposals for a gift shop and visitor cafe.

Allied, who are due to take possession of the Granada Studios site in April, today launched their short-term vision for the Quay Street complex, inviting proposals for pop-up markets, vintage and fashion fairs, workspace, live music, theatre and arts to be staged there while more permanent development plans for the neighbourhood - known as the St John’s Quarter - are worked up.

A spokesman for ITV said: "We are pleased the council have given planning approval for the creation of a tourist attraction for a limited period. The attraction will allow fans of the soap to walk down the famous cobbles, on which the soap was filmed for many years, before its move earlier this year to its new home at MediaCityUK. Further details on content of the attraction will be confirmed at a later stage."