Manchester expected to approve 172 homes
Housing applications from Views in Burnage and Miller Homes in Charlestown were lodged in spring and will be put to the city council’s planning committee next week, with officers recommending both for approval.
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Miller Homes was selected as the city council’s preferred bidder for the Charlestown site and is due to progress plans for a 106-home neighbourhood.
A mix of three- and four-bedroom mews, semi-detached, and detached properties would be built on the 6.5-acre site.
Miller Homes will provide 22 of the homes as affordable, split between social rent and shared ownership.
Pegasus Group is acting as planning consultant on behalf of Miller Homes.
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Edge Consulting Engineers, Ascerta, SHD, and Dominic Cole Landscape Architects also worked on the plans.
To view the application, use the reference number 143085/FO/2025 in Manchester City Council’s planning portal.
The site has not been used as a cricket ground since 2011. Credit: Ashurst Communications.
Burnage Cricket Club
Views Holdings is seeking consent to build 66 homes on the vacant Burnage Cricket Club site off Mauldeth Road.
Views has proposed 53 houses and 13 one-bedroom apartments on the 2.4-acre plot, with the flats being offered for discounted market sale at 80% of open market value.
Seven of the houses would be three-bedroom, the remaining 46 would be four-bedroom.
The recommendation is to approve, but a financial contribution towards new cricket facilities at nearby Cringle Playing Fields will be needed from the applicant.
Asteer Planning submitted the plans to the city council on View’s behalf.
Architect Oliver Smurthwaite Architects has taken design inspiration from the century-old Burnage Garden Village concept, designed by John Horner Hargreaves, for the scheme.
Redmore Environmental, E3P, CBO Transport, STRI, Rachel Hacking Ecology, Amenity Tree, Sports Planning Consultants, Watt Energy and Consulting Engineers, and LK Group each contributed expertise to the application.
To view the application, use the reference number 142311/FO/2025.
Burnage cricket club is one of the few green spaces in the area and should be retained as a sports facility available to local schools and the local community
By Anonymous
We need more social housing, not houses to buy so that builders make large profits, why can’t housing association or the council buy the land and build houses to rent on them
By Mabel Wightman
I wa informed that that there are covenants on the land and that it can only be used for recreational and sporting activities so how can they be allowed to build on the property.
By Gerald nightingale
Great to see what has become a wasteland and blight on the area redeveloped.
By Anonymous
Gerald nightingale .. we had some fields with the same covenants.. they simply mitigated it by putting a small caged tarmac football pitch.. and 500 paper boxes to “rent”. (i.e. The state will be paying for those that never intend to)
By Anonymous