This City completes £48m No1 Ancoats Green
Residents will begin to move into the 129-home Miles Platting scheme developed by Manchester City Council’s housing delivery arm in the coming weeks.
Wates Construction has completed the Buttress-designed No1 Ancoats Green off Rodney Street after starting work in 2023.
This City has brought forward 119 apartments and 10 townhouses in its debut project– 30% of which are to be made available at Manchester Living Rent.
Manchester Living Rent is an amount of rent that is set at or below the local housing allowance level, which the council states makes city-based renting “genuinely affordable”.
No1 Ancoats Green will offer a one-bedroom rate of £178.36 per week and a two-bedroom rate of £201.37 per week.
For the three-bedroom offer, tenants would pay £218.63 per week and for a four-bedroom, £310.68 per week.
The development mainly comprises two blocks, one of eight storeys and one of five storeys. The 10 townhouses each rise to three floors.
A mix of 27 one- and 91 two-bedroom apartments, in addition to eight three-bedroom and two four-bedroom townhouses, has been delivered.
The project is located opposite Ancoats Green, which has recently been given a £3.2m makeover.
Emphasis has been placed on sustainability and energy efficiency at the build with This City installing triple-glazed windows and high-quality wall insulation to keep bills low for residents.
The townhouses on the site’s south side complete the housing offer. Credit: PNW
Cllr Bev Craig, Leader of Manchester City Council, said: “No1 Ancoats Green is the product of a vision we have had since the inception of This City, to use our own land to build the homes we know our residents want and need, to a high specification, and on our own terms.
“For many years, it has been incredibly challenging for councils to build homes to meet demand, but through This City, we are proving that it is possible, and also delivering genuinely affordable housing for our residents.”
She continued: “This is only the beginning for This City. We are scaling up delivery and have more than 1,500 homes in the coming years with sites across the city.”
This City currently has more than 1,500 homes in its pipeline set to be developed on council-owned brownfield sites across the city. The city council recently announced it would partner with the Greater Manchester Pension Fund to bring forward the next phases of development.
Similar This City projects down the line include 750 homes in Monsall, 126 homes off Postal Street in the Northern Quarter, and 136 homes on the Grey Mare Lane estate.
Cllr Gavin White, Manchester City Council’s executive member for housing and development, added: “With the Ancoats Green and city centre on the doorstep, this is surely one of the most attractive developments on offer right now.
“And importantly, 30% of these homes are genuinely affordable and capped at the Manchester Living Rent, meaning as many people as possible in the city can access them.”
The Miles Platting development is expected to generate more than £1.5m a year in council tax revenue for the local authority.
The application for the Rodney Street scheme can be found using the reference number 134154/VO/2022 on Manchester City Council’s planning portal.
Affordable rent, but no parking, so you will need to pay well over a thousand pounds a year at the adjacent multi storey.
By Dave
@Dave – or people that choose to live there can just walk, cycle or take the bus into town and support local businesses along the way.
By James
Hi Dave, in this central a location many residents won’t actually need a car to meet their daily needs. Freeing up space that would be allocated for parking allows more homes and more outdoor amenity space to be delivered in the design!
By Anonymous
@Dave, the city of Pontevedra in north west Spain offers a great demonstration of how pedestrianisation boosts economic activity, well-being and civility. The Mayor, Miguel Anxo, has a really interesting take on car ownership: “It’s not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. It’s the same as if you bought a cow, or fridge, and then ask me where you’re going to put them.”
By More Anonymous than the others
If residents want free parking then they can choose to live somewhere else
By It really is that simple
Dave – This an edge of city centre development, why would people need a car?
By Anonymous
No such thing as free parking. Cars and parking are heavily subsidised by tax payers. As someone who doesn’t own a car but is in the top tax bracket: I’d like my hard earned tax money to stop being wasted on cars and motorists and instead be spent on more useful things like schools and hospitals. If motorists want to keep on motoring and taking up public space they can start paying for it themselves instead of sponging off the state
By Anonymous
We have learnt nothing from 60s regeneration disasters, not a pleasant looking scheme at all.
By Heritage Action
Living without a car would be grim, but I guess if you don’t have kids you could hire a car when you need one
By Anonymous
Dave, there are thousands of people who happily live in the city centre without a car. Anyone who does want a car should make the very difficult decision to not move to this development and choose the kind of mundane suburb I’m assuming you’d prefer.
By Anonymous
This is part of Manchester growing up as a city. If this was Hackney or Camden in London maybe 30% of households would have a car. Staying car-free, but taking an Uber or hiring a car from time time to time will leave you way ahead financially.
By Rich X
A solid start but if these were built anywhere else, they would provide balconies. As it is, in Manchester, the planning department seems to want to force builders to sacrifice outdoor space for someone’s aesthetic preference. A ridiculous non-policy that the city will live to regret, particularly as we’re getting hotter and drier climate. And they look like student blocks.
By Balcony watch
Sounds very expensive for 139 homes – would have been good to push for passivhaus certification within that cost envelope
By Phil Ingham
Look like wharehouses. Sorry, but that is my opinion.
By Anonymous
Come on now balcony watch…….name names if you have them…….if not stop making unsubstantiated assertions
By Anonymous
In another ten years the city centre residential bit will reach Alan Turing Way. It is time to sort Ardwick out. That area is in desperate need of some TLC.
By Elephant
When you put such a huge emphasis on ridiculous zero carbon schemes and fads, this is the kind of scheme you end up with. No money left for anything of any architectural merit. Absolutely turgid.
By Mr Mcr
“They look like warehouses”
So what? It’s an industrial city. If you don’t like it, don’t buy one.
By Don't be sorry
Could Mr Mcr define turgid in this context please?
By Anonymous
Who needs community or neighborhoods`? We all live alone joyfully in our little boxes. Neighbors? Who wants them?
By Anonymous
I’m with Dave – not literally – but I do live in the city centre and do have (and need!) a car as my work takes me all over the country, and I need to carry stuff in my car for my job, Who knew? Yes, there are some people who want to live in, and enjoy, city centre living but don’t just simply stay at home all day or walk to work. I also sometimes don’t use my car for a couple of weeks, but then might drive 1000 miles the next week. Or have 6 weeks on the road, in one go, so car ownership (well, leasing) is the only way I can live and work.
By BenAy
@anonymous in this context, boring!
By Mr Mcr
Excellent use of the blind window concept – looks fantastic and saves on tax (well it used to)!
By Phil Ingham