Moda nears pre-let for 25% of Angel Gardens

As Greater Manchester looks beyond Covid-19, debate over the long-running creation of its Spatial Framework, the plan to guide development for the next 20 years, has once again reared its head.

Renaker is to start construction on its latest skyscraper this month, a 50-storey tower in Salford's Greengate that will form the first building in a 1,500-apartment cluster.

Manchester City Council is consulting on whether to bring 13,000 homes back under council management, for the first time in 15 years.

The last project at Rowlinson’s redevelopment of the former Stagecoach site on Princess Road in Moss Side, a five-storey retirement living scheme totalling 40 apartments, has been approved by Manchester City Council.  

The city council expects to gain approval on Wednesday to set up a company to deliver at least 500 homes each year until 2025, including affordable and private tenure units, and reduce the budget for projects such as the Town Hall refurbishment.

Far East Consortium has put in plans for a £185m residential development on the former Angelgate site at Manchester's Dantzic Street.

Plans have been revealed for a 337-home development on the Olympic Freight depot in West Gorton.