L&G Affordable Homes to deliver 369 Manchester properties

Manchester Housing Providers Partnership has selected Legal & General’s discounted homes division to deliver the majority of the 700 dwellings planned as a result of a wave of land disposals by the city council.

L&G Affordable Homes has been chosen as the preferred developer for three publicly-owned sites in Charlestown, Levenshulme, and Moss Side.

In total, the schemes will provide 369 homes.

A nine-acre site in Broadmoss, Charlestown, is the largest and will be redeveloped into 271 homes for social rent and shared ownership.

L&G has been attached to this site for several months. In January it emerged that plans for 150 homes were being worked up but that vision has been beefed up in the intervening months by more than 100 units.

At the former Levenshulme baths at the corner of Barlow Road and Cromwell Grove, 34 apartments capped at the Manchester Living Rent are planned. Off Alexandra Road in Moss Side, LGAH will build another 64 homes capped at MLR. Manchester Living Rent is priced at or below local housing allowance rate.

Plans for all three LGAH schemes are expected to be submitted by January 2026.

Elsewhere, Southway Housing Trust and KMM have been picked to build 51 social rent homes on Gransmoor Avenue in Openshaw.

The city council’s Project 500 is also progressing towards a future phase. The initiative has seen the council offload small parcels of brownfield land to RPs for the delivery of affordable homes, often forgoing a capital receipt.

MSV, Onward, and Great Places are the housing associations selected to bring forward the next 160 homes across 12 sites. MSV will deliver 113 homes across eight sites, Great Places 33 homes across three sites, and Onward 14 on a single site.

The land disposals will be discussed at an executive meeting tomorrow (Wednesday 15 October).

The land disposals contribute towards Manchester City Council’s aim of delivering 10,000 new affordable homes over the next decade as part of its wider 34,000 homes target. Of these, 3,000 would be in the city centre.

Salboy, as part of Viadux phase two, plans to deliver 133 social rent flats within a standalone block in the heart of Manchester. Talks with registered providers to bring this scheme forward are expected to conclude before the year is out.

As part of a separate arrangement, Clarion Housing Association will enter into a 10-year partnership with Manchester City Council for the delivery of 400 homes across various sites in Gorton.

“We are delivering on our commitment made through our housing strategy to vastly increase the number of affordable homes – including significant numbers of social housing – being built in Manchester,” said Leader Cllr Bev Craig.

“We are seeing more affordable homes being built on council land than at any point since 2015 and this has been made possible through the strong partnership we have with the city housing providers, who are helping us not only deliver affordable homes Manchester needs at pace – but we are exceeding our targets.”

She added: “Through this latest programme of developments, including an ambitious pipeline of social rent homes in Gorton, we have unlocked more than 1,000 affordable homes this month alone.”