Manchester gets £3m affordable homes support
Projects in the north and east of the city that will provide 119 discount homes have been earmarked to benefit from the government funding.
Manchester City Council has received £3m to plug viability gaps and support the delivery of 210 homes in total, including £1.7m for the authority’s first This City project.
This City is the council’s housing delivery vehicle. Its maiden venture is a 129-home scheme off Rodney Street that will provide 38 affordable homes and 91 market properties.
While the Rodney Street development is the main beneficiary of the £3m grant, schemes that make up part of Manchester City Council’s Project 500 will also receive a share of the spoils.
Project 500 is an initiative aimed at redeveloping pockets of brownfield land across the city into affordable homes in partnership with registered providers.
The developments that will receive a share of the grant are:
- Parkmount Road – Harpurhey – MSV Housing – £467,178 – 24 affordable homes
- Parkhill Avenue – Crumpsall – Great Places – £375,000 – 25 affordable homes
- Blackwin Street – Gorton – One Manchester – £160,000 – seven affordable homes
- Plant Hill Road – Higher Blackley – Irwell Valley – £175,000 – 12 affordable homes
- Jurby Avenue – Higher Blackley – Irwell Valley – £215,280 – 13 affordable homes for people with dementia.
Cllr Gavin White, Manchester City Council’s executive member for housing and development, said: “Post-industrial Manchester left a lot of unused, brownfield land across the city. Developing this land and bringing it back into use is an important part of our plans to deliver 36,000 new homes in the next ten years – and we have an ambitious target to make sure 10,000 of these are genuinely affordable to Manchester people.
“However, brownfield land is often more challenging to develop, and we also have lots of smaller plots that are financially difficult to build on. This funding will support our partnership with the city’s registered providers to build on these smaller plots of land as part of our Project 500 initiative – delivering the affordable homes our residents need.”
