Clarion picked to deliver 400 Gorton homes
Manchester City Council has selected the housing association’s development arm Latimer to progress plans to transform 17 sites in the district centre into accommodation for single people and families.
Clarion Housing Association, which has just started building the 60% affordable, 500-home Brewery Gardens on Manchester’s Great Ducie Street, will invest around £60m in Gorton over the coming years to deliver the 400 homes.
Clarion and the city council plan to enter into a 10-year collaborative partnership to bring the homes forward. The issue will be discussed at a meeting of the authority’s executive this week.
Subject to conditions being met around land assembly, viability, and planning, Clarion will draw down the council-owned sites on a long leasehold basis.
The first phase of the development will be focused on the 1.23-acre former library site off Garratt Way, where Clarion plans to deliver a six-storey building featuring 70 apartments and houses on affordable tenures.
A Clarion spokesperson said: “Clarion has a long and proud history in the Gorton area of Manchester, where our founder William Sutton built one of his first estates.
“This year is our 125th year anniversary, a timely moment for us to both reflect and look forward. As the preferred partner for the regeneration of Gorton district centre, this represents a significant investment from us to deliver the new social and affordable homes that are so desperately needed in the city.
“We look forward to further supporting with their aspirations to deliver not just new housing, but new investment into the wider community”.
As well as responding to housing need in the area, the scheme “creates density in the new heart of the district centre, acting as a statement of intent in a highly sustainable location with amenities on the doorstep”, according to an executive report.
The regeneration of Gorton was mapped out in a framework drawn up by OPEN and Cushman & Wakefield that was rubber-stamped in 2023. Work is already underway. the city council as invested £1.4m to create a new public square on part of the Gorton Market car park.
Looks highly promising! More progressive collaboration from Manchester Council, great to see.
By Anonymous
This was always the plan.. and not wanted by people here.. they demolished a perfectly good building the library and rooms the community could have been using for two years since they demolished it .. they have also been threatening the elderly care homes that are adjacent.. the city council did not invest the 1.4million it was a government grant they HAD to spend it on.. they are currently destroying what was a thriving market with nonsense ideas.
What they need to do is stop those who can’t manage their rubbish.. and the highly prevalent drug dealers and many rough sleepers.
Out community rooms and churches are no longer for the.. general community use.
They are making it an extension of longsight.. the place is doomed.
By This was alwayscommunity
To add to the hundreds of other houses being forced into every nook and cranny.. how about connecting east to west Manchester via transport.. and adding more services.. the buses are rammed or often cancelled.. it’s a nightmare..
By Anonymous
I hope this increased density is impetus to invest in more bus lanes and rail. It would be a nice little earner for TFGM
By Anonymous
This was always community – come on its Monday everyone is already depressed enough as it is!
By Happy Chappy
The long promised rail to metro conversion has been pushed back again.. there has been no plans for extra GPS.. there is a new secondary..but it host one of the 10 worst secondary schools in the UK.. and many of the local primarys are so full of “respect” they forget the basics.
Instead of bringing in more people how about bringing in infrastructure.
By Anonymous
Happy chappy.. sleep on it.. it won’t be any better .. but it will be yesterdays bad news
By Anonymous
Great news
By Anonymous