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“This is only one element of the ambitious plans for north Manchester”One current entrance to Sandhills Park, which is where the hoped-for tram stop will be(Image: LDRS)<\/p>\n

A year ago, a group of developers, architects, planners, investors, and a couple of journalists were staring at a chippy van in Collyhurst in the blazing sun.<\/p>\n

It was in an unloved, scruffy layby next to the little-known Sandhills Park. It did not seem like much, but council bosses were describing the layby as \u2018mission critical\u2019 for the regeneration of north Manchester.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the layby is where they hoped the entrance to a new Sandhills Metrolink<\/a> stop could go, and thousands of new homes would follow.<\/p>\n

Back in June 2024<\/a>, the plan for Sandhills were still hopes and dreams. Now they\u2019re reality.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday (June 4), transport bosses confirmed they will use some of the \u00a32.5bn of cash Chancellor Rachel Reeves gave to Greater Manchester to revamp public transport to build a new stop at Sandhills.<\/p>\n

Other projects locally include extending Metrolink lines to Stockport<\/a> town centre; buying 1,000 new electric Bee Network buses; creating new city centre and Leigh interchanges; creating tram-train routes along Metrolink lines and rail tracks in Oldham<\/a>, Rochdale<\/a>, and Bury<\/a>; and new tram stations at Cop Road in Oldham and Elton Reservoir in Bury.<\/p>\n

All three new tram stations have a couple of things in common. The first is they fill large gaps between halts on the network.<\/p>\n

The second is they allow thousands of new homes to be built as having a transport hub will make them far more attractive places to live.<\/p>\n

The Victoria Riverside towers (centre), near Angel Square (left), with the Red Bank development site in foreground are part of Victoria North(Image: FEC)<\/p>\n

In Sandhills\u2019 case, the new station will fall between Victoria and Queens Road \u2018will help us to unlock\u2019 some 2,500 new homes around it under the Victoria North \u2018new town\u2019 project, council leader Bev Craig said.<\/p>\n

The \u00a33.88bn Victoria North scheme will see 15,000 homes built from Angel Meadow to Collyhurst over 155 hectares until the late 2030s, adding 35,000 people to the city\u2019s population. They will be serviced by the new tram stop, new schools, new medical facilities, and a new park.<\/p>\n

But according to Coun Craig, that\u2019s only the start of an \u2018ambitious plan\u2019 to transform north Manchester.<\/p>\n

\u201cManchester has campaigned for many years to see investment in our transport system. In a settlement that was better than we predicted and will make a real difference right across the city,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrucially for Manchester, this funding will help deliver the brand new Metrolink stop at Sandhills in Collyhurst and unlock the ambitious future phases of regeneration in this community that will see more than 2,500 new homes \u2013 including significant council and social housing \u2013 and new shops alongside education and medical facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut this is only one element of the ambitious plans for north Manchester. We look forward to working closely with this government in the coming months to realise the wider potential of this part of our city through the North Manchester General Hospital (NMGH) programme, continued investment into our high streets and district centres, and a raft of new home building that puts north Manchester as a priority for our future growth plans.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Image: MFT)<\/p>\n

The NMGH plan will see up to \u00a31.5bn invested in the Crumpsall site some liken to a ’19th century workhouse’, with a full rebuild.<\/p>\n

It will be replaced by a fully-modernised district general hospital, including a refurbished A&E, walk-in centre, labour wards, operating theatres, and x-ray and outpatients facilities. Alongside the new hospital, new social housing and worker accommodation will be installed, as well as step-down care rooms and a wellbeing room, allotments, and village green.<\/p>\n

Although the NMGH and Victoria North plans are not related, it appears together they will form a huge transformation of north Manchester \u2014 which starts with a layby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“This is only one element of the ambitious plans for north Manchester”One current entrance to Sandhills Park, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[15333,748,2967,393,4884,2465,8086,8828,285,8825,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-158060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-bee-network","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-collyhurst","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-manchester-city-centre","15":"tag-manchester-council","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-transport-for-greater-manchester","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114626302628012254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}