McLaughlin goes it alone

Rowlinson has started building apartments for Wythenshawe Community Housing Group on a site formerly owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese.

Bardsley Construction will begin work next week on a 56-bed project in Burnage Lane for Southway Housing Trust, with completion set for October 2020.

The consultancy has received positive verdicts on two Greater Manchester planning applications, with housing set to move forward in Partington and Crumpsall.

Manchester City Council's planning committee has deferred a decision on a residential scheme at Hardy's Well in Rusholme until a site visit, and is minded to refuse a 12-storey student scheme on Cambridge Street described as "a giraffe among hamsters".

While the facade of the Hardy's Well pub in Rusholme is set to be retained as part of a six-storey apartment block, plans for the full demolition of the Church Inn on Cambridge Street are due to be approved by Manchester City Council's planning committee next week.

Building work has begun on 36 one and two-bedroom apartments for older people, including those living with dementia, at Wilbraham Road in the Manchester suburb.

The Government has told Greater Manchester the City Region will no longer be receiving a £68m brownfield housing fund, following the reduction of housing targets included in the rewritten Spatial Framework.

During a MIPIM week set against a backdrop of continued political uncertainty, Place North West met with Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and council leader Richard Leese, to discuss Greater Manchester Spatial Framework challenges, delivering housing numbers, local politics, and Brexit.

The 75-apartment scheme on Bengal Street proposed by M4nchester Two has received the approval of Manchester City Council’s planning committee.