Latest New Islington phase wraps up

Far East Consortium, Manchester’s development partner on its £1bn Northern Gateway housing plan, has launched a search for a registered provider to help it deliver affordable homes across Red Bank, with an ambition to deliver 800 such homes over 10 years.

The city council has published an updated strategy for the delivery and management of properties at the lower end of the private rented sector aimed at improving housing, tackling rogue landlords and providing those on lower incomes with greater choice. 

The future of offices and a look at developments in Greater Manchester and Liverpool are among the topics under scrutiny at Place conferences in September.

Southvalley Estates, part of MCR Property Group, has revisited its longstanding plans to redevelop the site, which sits within Manchester’s Northern Gateway masterplan and is tipped to house 1,200 homes, with a consultation launch. 

The developer has won planning permission to convert the former Tatton Arms pub in Manchester, which has stood empty for more than a decade, into 28 apartments.

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.