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MSV's Moss Side site is one of those to be disposed of. Credit: via Hough Bellis

Manchester to dispose of 10 sites for 700 affordable homes

Sites in Moss Side, Levenshulme, and Miles Platting are among those to be sold to housing associations to help the city council hit its target of 10,000 discounted homes by 2032.

Manchester City Council’s executive will meet next week to sign off disposal of 10 sites across the city that could deliver 708 homes.

The sites will be redeveloped by members of the Manchester Housing Providers Partnership, including L&Q, Legal & General Affordable Homes, Jigsaw Housing, Great Places Housing, and MSV.

The largest of the sites being disposed of is Broadmoss in Charlestown, which is just shy of 10 acres. Legal & General Affordable Homes is drawing up plans for 150 properties there.

Others include the former Reno nightclub in Moss Side, which MSV plans to redevelop into 220 homes, and Levenshulme cricket club, a three-acre site where Southway Housing Trust is planning 50 homes.

The Peacock Centre in Gorton will deliver 70 affordable homes by Clarion Housing Association. The first 76 of a planned 500 new properties at the Grey Mare Lane estate in East Manchester will be developed by Great Places on a site previously occupied by The Manchester bar.

The homes being delivered on the 10 sites would be available on a variety of affordable tenures.

Bev Craig, Leader of Manchester City Council, said: “Building more affordable homes for Manchester residents is one of Manchester City Council’s biggest priorities and we have a massive housebuilding programme under way to build at least 10,000 genuinely affordable, council, social homes.

“We know that building these much-needed homes isn’t easy, so we have looked at how we can get the best use from land that the council owns to help us reach ambitious housing strategy. I’m pleased to bring forward the latest examples of where we our building on our land.

“We are on track to meet our target, and we have seen more genuinely affordable homes built in the last year than at any other time in more than a decade. This is being done through programmes like this, our own building company This City, Project 500, large regeneration schemes and working to influence the market. We are committed to building the new homes Manchester residents need to thrive.”

Cllr Gavin White, Manchester City Council’s executive member for housing and development, said: “We are constantly reviewing what land opportunities are at our disposal to build much-need housing across a range of tenures and types to meet demand in a local area. These parcels of land will all deliver the homes we know these communities need, including significant affordable and social housing, but also specialist housing too. We really welcome the accelerated delivery of new social and affordable housing that these sites will enable.

“This is in no small part thanks to our strong partnership approach, working closely with Manchester’s housing providers using Council-owned brownfield land, public and government funding, and the expertise of the city’s affordable housing developers to build high quality, low carbon homes for Manchester people.”

 

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These are not ‘discounted homes’. They are affordable homes which, in many instances, will cost more to build than they will be worth once completed. That is why they will need to be supported by public funding.

By UnaPlanner

It’s good to see these sites being brought into the pipeline however there is a big appetite for Community Led Housing in Manchester which is not being met due to the difficulties in accessing land. It would be great to see MCC committing to a percentage of Community Led Housing on each of these key sites as their Housing Strategy promises.

By Rachel Summerscales

Unfortunately because of the stringent building regulations that new houses have to comply to such as high specification insulation and electric air source heat pumps building costs are very high and if the houses get built for people on minimum wages or benefits they will never be paid for

By Paul Griffiths

Affordable to who?

By Anonymous

Manchester have a great opportunity to embed high quality Passivhaus standard homes in the city, providing healthy homes with low energy bills for residents. The more of these we see the cheaper they will become to build, and the more residents will benefit. They will last longer and be better value for the housing providers in the long term. Making Passivhaus the default for all new housing developments will also contribute to upskilling the construction workforce to make the changes that are needed to avoid building homes that will need replacing in just a few decades. If Salford can do it, so can Manchester.

By Sian Richards

Well, it’ll be good to reduce the crowding of the Manchester Move lists, but I hope the council will use some of whatever they earn from these sales to get their existing properties into better shape. I live in a block of flats less than 15 years old where every one of the four “security” doors to the lobby has been broken and at best semi-functional for weeks or months despite being repeatedly reported, and since most of the tenants here are disabled, that’s not exactly great!

By Tria

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