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.
Hinchley Road
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.
