This City pushes on with 126-home Northern Quarter project
Located on Postal Street, the development is the second to be brought forward by Manchester City Council’s housing delivery vehicle.
A consultation has launched on plans for a 126-home project in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, designed by Hawkins\Brown. The consultation will run until early February and precedes the submission of a planning application.
The industrial unit that previously occupied the site has already been demolished to pave the way for the project, which features 70 one-bed and 56 two-bed homes. At least 20% will be made available at the Manchester Living Rent, a level of rent that is covered by housing benefit.
Deloitte is advising on planning, Heyne Tillett Steel is the structural and civil engineer and Re:form is the landscape architect.
SK Transport, Hanan Associates, AtkinsRealis, OFR, and Counter Context are also engaged.
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The project is the second in the queue for This City after No1 Ancoats Green, a 129-home scheme that will complete later this year.
Other sites outside of the city centre have also been earmarked for This City projects, including on the Grey Mare Lane Estate, Belle Vue, and Monsall.
Cllr Gavin White, Manchester City Council’s executive member for housing and development, said: “This City is an innovative way of increasing the number of homes built on council land – building the homes we know our residents want, including affordable homes, on our own terms.
“We are now moving ahead with the fourth This City site in the heart of Manchester’s famous Northern Quarter where we are looking to build high-quality, low carbon homes – and at least 20% will be capped at the Manchester Living Rent, creating more choice for more of our residents to live in the city centre.”
This City was formed in 2021 and is scaling up to deliver 500 homes a year.
I design blocks of flats like these, too, at home on lazy Sunday afternoons. Beautiful are they not?
By Anonymous
Good news that MCC is actually delivering affordable housing in one of these developments.
Perhaps they could share the full viability assesment – if it doesn’t all feature in the planning application – with other developers, consultants and certain MCC planning officers to show them that it is in fact entirely possible to broadly comply with MCC’s own affordable housing policy?
By Rotringer
That visual looks okay but deffo a missed opportunity to create something special on a prominent corner. Saw a proposal at Kingsway, Burnage that was very similar to this but that architect made a real effort to add a bit of character to the building.
By Anonymous
This is somewhat bland but if it is high quality, this is a great building for its purpose. Adding too much flair can lead to the building dating more quickly and of course add cost, reducing viability and the number of affordable homes that can ultimately be provided. More of these please to house as many people as can be housed.
By Anonymous