Keepmoat subsidiary lodges Stretford housing plans
MCI Developments wants to build close to 100 homes on the former RAC House site off Thomas Street.
The plans feature 94 one-, two-, three, and four-bed affordable homes – 46 houses and 48 apartments. MCI has agreed a deal with Property Capital to acquire the land subject to planning approval.
The four-storey apartment blocks would be constructed overlooking the Bridgewater Canal.
Property Capital bought the four-acre site from the RAC in 2024. The plot was previously home to the automotive services company’s former Stretford call centre. The 45,000 sq ft building was demolished in 2024.
Alongside the RAC House deal, the investor bought the adjoining 3.45-acre former gas holder from the National Grid. MCI had originally been looking at this plot too but it has ultimately omitted from the plans in part due to remediation costs, according to planning documents.
Broadgrove Planning and Design is advising on planning and MSPL is leading on design.
To learn more, search for reference number 118719/FUL/26 on Trafford Council’s planning portal.
Colliers advised Property Capital on the sale to Keepmoat.
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“Mummy can we play outside today”?
“No darling, because the neighbourhood is one big car park. Go and sit in your room and play on your phone instead”
By Anonymous
@1:37 pm By Anonymous, not sure what you are looking at, but those houses all have back gardens, perfect for playing in. Parking bays help to reduce on street parking which is sensible. Looks like a good scheme to me, though Id like to see solar panels on those rooves.
By GetItBuilt!
Each property should have an in curtilage parking space and proper front and rear garden areas. The whole site is dominated by parking.
By Anonymous
CARS CARS CARS CARS CARS and some houses. There shouldn’t be any parking here, it’s a brief walk to the metrolink and the area has generally good connectivity without using a car.
By Flixton resident
Far too many houses for such a site
By Anonymous
Looks terrible. A Mish mash of concrete and tarmac. What’s wrong with having new developments as they used to be… Front and back gardens and a driveway? Totally soulless. There’s more greenery in Stretford Mall car park now.
By Anonymous
@FlixtonResident Having lived in Gorse Hill for a few years, knowing Flixton for the past 40 odd years, being repeatedly made ill by the bus and tram; whenever I get in my car I channel Aretha Franklin and sing: “Oh freedom, freedom, FREEDOM!”
By Anonymous
@Flixton resident, do you have sufficient parking around your neck of the woods? If someone pays over the odds for a brand spanking new house, it’s not unreasonable to expect a parking space outside, regardless of whether the house is close to a tram stop.
By Gigantic Steve
no solar panels is just madness in 2026….
By emma
No parking, no residents, everybody needs a car
By Anonymous
@Flixton resident the site is 1.5 miles from the nearest tram stop. Do you really deem a mile and a half “a brief walk”?! If someone pays an eye watering amount for a new home on this site, the least they can expect is a parking space.
By Gigantic Steve
What about the infrastructure…..? Doctors, dentist, schools etc…..too many being built in Stretford we cannot cope as it is……traffic horrendous & lights on Thomas street only lets 2/3 cars through at a time on the Chester Road…..
By Angel
I thought this kind of development was relegated to the past. There are more parking spaces than houses. Manchester should avoid the sprawling housing estates of the 80s that were a real blight for the city. More density is needed, this takes up far too much land. More quality appartments are needed and not match boxes like we see here.
By Mike
@ Angel you’re being far too logical. The planners don’t give two hoots about such concerns, especially those of longstanding residents.
By Big Des
It’s a brownfield site which is what needs to be used to build houses. Its a good 20 min walk to Metrolink, so without a new station being built, is not that close.
By Rick
People who say “everybody needs a car” – are also the first to complain about traffic congestion anywhere, but presumably don’t have the critical thinking to put those two things together
By Anonymous
@Anon 23/4/26 The bus is stuck in the jam with me. Public transport is no the solution and never will be. If a rich person is entitled to a car then so is the person having to pay far too much for the houses that are planned.
By Aretha Franklin
Well said Aretha Franklin. Respect!!
By Big Des
More people failing to join the dots on transport. We’re doomed because apparently cars = freedom. Banal thinking.
By Green Belt Ben
“Public transport will never be the solution”. Thanks, I’ll think about that as I get the V1 bus whizzing past all the cars stuck in traffic. Enjoy losing your life, freedom, and contact with your family as you while away your days sat in a traffic jam
By Anonymous
Only lazy people use cars
By Anon
Why don’t they all have front and back private space, even just a little bit like most of the houses on Thomas Street? They need the parking spaces because Thomas Street can hardly cope with the numbers of cars parking on it already, any more and there’d be parking wars. The residents of this new estate should not be allowed to have resident area B parking permits because they will already have their own assigned parking spaces, unlike the majority of the Gorse Hill terraced houses.
By MK