Caddick completes £14m Chorlton later living
Fifty flats for over-55s have been created within a five-storey scheme on the site of the Manchester suburb’s former swimming pool.
Caddick Construction has handed over the £14m project known as Bath House to registered provider MSV after a two-year build. MSV will own and operate scheme’s 50 one- and two-bed flats.
Designed by Buttress Architects, the development will provide social rent homes for people in later life to right-size into. The hope is that by offering this kind of accommodation in the heart of Chorlton larger family homes could be freed up.
Cllr Gavin White, Manchester City Council’s executive member for housing and development, said: “The Bath House scheme is a development that ticks so many of our housing investment boxes – 50 social rent homes that provide accommodation for older people, should they want to right size into properties that might better suit them.
“It’s also bringing a long-term brownfield site back into use, while celebrating some of the features in the former leisure centre. This is quality development that has delivered genuinely affordable homes to the heart of Chorlton.”
The scheme has been designed in line with HAPPI principles – a UK government-backed initiative launched in 2009 to set new design standards for older people’s housing – with a focus on wellbeing and accessibility, according to the project team.
Charlie Norman, chief executive of MSV Housing Group, said the scheme’s design, which incorporates nods to the former swimming baths, has succeeded in producing a place that “looks like it has always been here”
“I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to see this wonderful scheme come to fruition,” she said.
“It’s been exciting to see Bath House grow from what was an overlooked brownfield site to now fit so beautifully in its surroundings – a true testament to the architects and contractors, as well as MSV’s team.”
Bath House was funded by MSV, Manchester City Council, and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
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