Densification afoot for Wythenshawe social housing sites
Wythenshawe Community Housing Group wants to knock down some of its older stock and deliver around 320 homes across two sites.
The Edwards Court and Birch Tree Court tower blocks off Rowlandsway, which comprise a combined 172 flats, could be flattened to pave the way for 200 new homes.
Meanwhile, WCHG also wants to clear Frank Price Court, Henfield Walk, and Tenterden Walk – located off Cornfield Drive and comprising 90 flats – and build 120 homes. Overall, the two projects would result in a net increase of around 60 units.
The housing replacement project sits apart from the reinvention of Wythenshawe town centre, which is being taken forward by a joint venture featuring Manchester City Council and Muse.
The housing association is seeking an architect to lead on the design of the two developments and will favour a practice with experience navigating the Building Safety Regulator.
Tender documents accompanying the opportunity state that WCHG is “considering the future of some of [its] older homes, which are some of the lowest performing homes and least likely to be sustainable in the future”.
Edwards Court, Birch Tree Court, Frank Price Court, Henfield Walk, and Tenterden Walk “may be demolished and replaced as part of a comprehensive regeneration programme”, the documents add.
WCHG was contacted for comment.
The housing group recently secured consent for a three new-build schemes as part of the regeneration of Wythenshawe, working in partnership with developer Muse and Manchester City Council.
When do you plan to notify the tenants who live in these and the surrounding properties? Reading it on here that your home may be being demolished rather than from your landlord or Manchestet city council speaks volumes as usual.
By Anonymous
Green space not fast food homes
By Anonymous
320 new homes for the people of Wythenshawe is really good news.
By Anonymous
Wchg need to pay more attention to the homes they control already. Benxhull is a disgrace, from daily flytipping houses with gutters missing, gardens full of household rubbish.
By Anonymous
The old shell land needs to be built on . It’s a disgrace.
By Anonymous
Very good news if WCHG leading on it ensures the new homes can be retained as social housing.
Prices/private rents have soared in recent years across most of Wythenshawe even though considerable deprivation remains, while Labour has inexplicably let Right to Buy continue to delete social housing stock, particularly family-sized homes.
By Anonymous
My concern is if Henfield walk is knocked down where would I be offered to live as I am certainly not living in a high rise with no private garden area
By Anonymous
The sooner the better
By Malcolm Taylor
Sooner the better.but while it’s being built , where you going to put all these people
By Peter Beasley
Will these homes be allocated to people who live in Wythenshawe
By Orca
Is this accurate information. I’m a resident at Edwards Court and that is not the information I have received from WCHG.
By Naomi
Nothing surprises me with wchg as the wchg guys working in my flat today weren’t even told
By Anonymous
Today I recieved this letter (21/05/2026) regards to my flat…..
Dear Resident.
A media article about the future of Birch Tree and Edwards Court has been published
online. We wanted to contact you directly to provide clear information and invite you to speak with us in person.
As part of the wider regeneration of Wythenshawe Town Centre, we are currently
exploring a range of options for how we can deliver more new, high-quality social
rent homes in the area. This includes looking at whether Birch Tree and Edwards
Court, may be suitable for refurbishment or redevelopment.
At this stage, no decisions have been made. We are carrying out work to better
understand what may be possible and what options could deliver the best outcomes for
residents, the community and the wider area.
We want to reassure you that residents will be fully involved and supported throughout this process.
Before any decisions are taken, we will work closely with you to ensure your
views, concerns and priorities are heard and considered.
We would like to invite you to the following resident meetings where we will explain what we know so far, answer questions and listen to your feedback.
Meeting: Tuesday 26th May from 6-7:30pm at Wythenshawe House, 8 Poundswick Lane
Drop in: Thursday 4th June between 2-4pm at Birch Tree, Community Room
lf you are unable to attend the meetings but would like to speak to us or arrange a home visit, please email [email protected] or call 0300 111 0000.
Yours sincerely,
Paul Seymour
Executive Director of Customers and Communities.
By Resident at Edwards Court.
Will these new homes be for the people of Wythenshawe or will others be moving in from out of the area?
By Bryan France
Not making any sence, knocking down homes, to build homes ! we need green space, somewhere the older children can go like an adventure playground, we also need decent shops like the Range, Aldi, Lidl and no more fast food places. You probabley wont take any notice of the people of Wythenshawe
By Anonymous
I live in Edwards court and would like to know were do you think you going to put us all who live in the 2 block.
I like my flat and don’t want to move I keep myself to my self.but the people that I do talk to don’t want to move
By Anonymous