
Approval for abandoned warehouse demolition
Amstone Residential has been granted planning permission to demolish a three-storey former factory in Longsight, to make way for a seven-storey residential scheme totalling 96 homes.
Amstone Residential has been granted planning permission to demolish a three-storey former factory in Longsight, to make way for a seven-storey residential scheme totalling 96 homes.
Manchester City Council has selected Galliford Try Partnerships to deliver 75 council homes in the north of the city.
Entrepreneur Colin Shenton is to follow up his Ziferblat co-working spaces with the launch of Oppidan, a co-living scheme in Manchester’s Swan Street.
Urban Splash has received planning consent for its next phase of modular townhouses at New Islington, Manchester.
Global property group Lendlease has said that work will start imminently on the final phase of 191 flats in Manchester’s Castlefield, having previously aimed for a start in the first quarter of this year.
Southway Housing Trust has started work on extra care social housing in Abbey Hey Lane, Gorton, two years after putting the scheme on hold due to Government benefit cuts.
Manchester City Council is planning to build up to 75 affordable homes in Newton Heath using modular construction, with completion of the first homes planned for 2020.
Japanese housebuilder Sekisui has made its first move into the UK market after taking a 35% stake in Urban Splash’s modular House business, while Splash has also secured £30m from Homes England.
Retail business Leon’s Fabrics has submitted an application for a five-storey development at its Barlow Moor Road site in the south Manchester suburb.
Greater Manchester leaders and residents of at-risk buildings have said that the Government’s pledge of £200m to replace ACM cladding on private buildings stops short of addressing the problems they face.