New Cross Central tops out

The housebuilder, headed up by Renaker managing director Daren Whittaker, has submitted plans for a 168-home redevelopment of a former plastics factory on Seaford Road after Bellway had an application for 135 homes on the same site rejected by the city council in September. 

Manchester City Council rejected the developer’s plans for a 425-home student accommodation scheme on the former USDAW trade union site in September. 

One of The Manchester College’s campuses is to be redeveloped by housebuilder Miller Homes following approval by the city council’s planning committee for a residential development on the 18-acre site. 

Work has begun on 216 homes at the east Manchester development, where Lovell Partnerships is working with the housing provider.

The city council has submitted plans for the first phase of work backed by the Housing Infrastructure Fund at Red Bank, where 5,500 homes are planned.

Dandara Living has launched a public consultation to turn part of an underutilised car park in East Didsbury into a seven-storey apartment complex.

Miller Homes is eyeing consent for its plans to build 224 homes on the 18-acre plot it bought from LTE Group as part of the operator’s estate strategy. 

The housing provider has produced a masterplan for the redevelopment of the Beswick neighbourhood, proposing the demolition of out-of-date housing stock and the creation of 290 new houses and apartments. 

Designed by Pozzoni Architecture, the low-carbon Gorton Mill House has 106 apartments that use renewable heating and hot water systems rather than gas.