Land at Moss Side, Levenshulme and Miles Platting are among those to be sold to housing associations to help the council meet its target of 10,000 discounted homes by 2032.
Manchester City Council’s executive will meet next week to sign off disposal of 10 sites across the city that could deliver 708 homes.
The sites will be remodelled through members of Manchester Housing Providers Partnership, L
The largest of the sites being disposed of is Broadmoss in Charlestown, which is just shy of 10 acres. Legal & General Affordable Homes is drawing up plans for 150 properties there.
Others include the former Reno nightclub in Moss Side, which MSV plans to redevelop into 220 homes, and Levenshulme Cricket Club, a three-acre site where Southway Housing Trust is planning 50 homes.
The Peacock Center in Gorton will deliver 70 affordable homes through Clarion Housing Association. The first 76 of the 500 new homes planned for the Gray Mare Lane estate in east Manchester will be developed through Great Places on a site that in The past occupied through the Manchester bar.
The homes delivered at the 10 sites would be delivered in a variety of affordable tenancy arrangements.
Bev Craig, leader of Manchester City Council, said: “Building more affordable homes for the citizens of Manchester is one of Manchester City Council’s biggest priorities and we have a massive housing construction program underway to build at least 10,000 housing units. really affordable social.
“We know that building those much-needed homes is not easy, so we have looked at how we can make the maximum of the land we own the council deliver an ambitious housing strategy. I am pleased to provide the latest examples of where We are building on our land.
“We are on track to meet our goal and, in fact, have seen more affordable homes built in the last year than at any time in over a decade. This is done through systems like this, our own This City corporate structure, Project 500, primary regeneration projects and market influence efforts. We are committed to building the new homes that other people in Manchester want to see flourish.
Cllr Gavin White, Executive Member for Housing and Development at Manchester City Council, said: “We are constantly looking for land opportunities we may have to build much-needed housing in a diversity of occupancies and types to meet demands in a local area. These plots of land will provide all the housing we know those communities need, adding vital social and affordable housing, but also specialist housing. We welcome the accelerated delivery of new social and affordable housing that those sites will enable.
“This is largely due to our strong partnership approach, which is largely developed with Manchester’s brownfield housing providers, public and government funding, and the expertise of the city’s affordable housing developers to build high-quality, low-carbon homes for the rest of Manchester.
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These are not “discount homes. ” These are homes that, in many cases, will cost more to build than their value once finished. That is why they will have to be supported with public funds.
By UnaPlanner
It’s smart to see those sites getting underway, but there’s a huge appetite for community housing in Manchester, which isn’t being met due to difficulties in accessing land. It would be wonderful to see MCC dedicate itself to providing a percentage of community housing at those key sites, as promised in its housing strategy.
By Rachel Summerscales
Unfortunately because of the stringent building regulations that new houses have to comply to such as high specification insulation and electric air source heat pumps building costs are very high and if the houses get built for people on minimum wages or benefits they will never be paid for
By Paul Griffiths
Affordable for whom?
By anonymous
Manchester has a wonderful opportunity to integrate popular high-quality Passivhaus homes into the city, offering citizens healthy homes with low energy bills. The more we see of them, the less they will charge to build and the more citizens will benefit. They will last longer and offer better value to lenders in the long run. Making Passivhaus the default for all new developments will also help upskill the frame workforce to make necessary adjustments to frame houses that will need to be replaced within a few decades. If Salford can do it, so can Manchester.
By Sian Richards
Well, it would be fantastic to reduce the clutter in Manchester Move listings, but the council will use some of what it earns from those sales to improve the condition of its existing homes. I live in a construction less than 15 years old where each of the 4 “security” doors in the front corridor have been damaged and at their maximum productivity are semi-functional for weeks or months despite repeated reports, and since the maximum tenants here are disabled, it’s not really great!
By Tria
Three buildings would be demolished and replaced by 70 homes across apartments and townhouses in the south Manchester suburbs, a scheme designed by OMI Architects.
A four-storey block of 41 apartments accompanied by nine townhouses is proposed for the former Band Stand pub on Wall Way in Gorton, under an application submitted through R S 786.
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