Manchester unveils next This City scheme 

Around 100 apartments on Postal Street in the city’s Northern Quarter will be the next tranche of homes developed by the council’s newly formed housing delivery vehicle. 

This City’s second project, which follows news of plans for 128 homes on Rodney Street in Ancoats, will be built on a site on Postal Street currently occupied by a warehouse.  

HawkinsBrown has been appointed to design the scheme and Faithful + Gould is the project manager. 

This City is to deliver “a minimum of 100 low-carbon city centre apartments” on Postal Street, according to Manchester City Council.  

Around 20% of the homes will be available for accessible rent. This means they will be priced at or below the Local Housing Allowance level and therefore be accessible to residents on housing benefit.    

A consultation will open in the summer to gather public views on the proposals for the Postal Street site ahead of the submission of a planning application later this year.     

“Our ambition is that This City will scale up home delivery as quickly as possible to 500 homes a year,” said Cllr Bev Craig, leader of the Manchester City Council. 

“Our aim is to directly build the homes we know Manchester people need, helping to meet the demand for high-quality affordable homes, and This City will play an important role in building the many new social and accessible rent homes we need.” 

This City was formed earlier this year with the aim of boosting the city council’s housing delivery output. 

Manchester is on track to build more than 7,000 affordable homes by 2025, exceeding the previous target of 6,400 new affordable homes between 2015 and 2025, according to the city council.