Manchester to splash £4.5m on Holt Town land assembly
Crossley Court, short-term accommodation off Pollard Street run by the Salvation Army, is to be purchased by the city council.
The £4.5m deal would be funded by borrowing and would see Manchester City Council take control of a parcel of land on the confluence of Pollard Street, Carruthers Street, and Merrill Street from the charity.
The site is located in an area earmarked for low-rise family housing in the Holt Town neighbourhood development framework, a masterplan worked up to guide the regeneration of the area of East Manchester between New Islington and Manchester City’s Etihad Campus.
Known as Terraces, the area could accommodate a proportion of the 4,500 homes that the city council believes could be delivered in Holt Town over the coming years.
The 46-unit Crossley House, home to some of the few residents who currently live in the 74-acre, largely industrial, area of Holt Town, is at the western gateway of the character area.
The plot is also immediately adjacent to a 2.7-acre council-owned site that was cleared of housing more than a decade ago and opposite Ancoats Works, which is under the ownership of the Kamani family.
“As part of this process, the council will work directly with the residents currently in the accommodation with an individual tailored approach for their circumstances to make sure we can support them into appropriate housing. Each resident will be placed in band 1 on the rehousing register as part of a seamless transition to their next home that meet their needs – and they will also be compensated for the disruption.
“We want to reassure residents at Crossley Court that they will not be rushed and there will be no need to move this side of Christmas and we will be support them through the coming months and into next year.”
In 2024, Studio Egret West was chosen to lead a multi-disciplinary team which includes Deloitte, MVRDV NEXT, Turley, AKT II, Hilson Moran, Deetu, and Hatch, to draw up the neighbourhood regeneration plan.
