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The Victoria North project is already under way(Image: FEC)<\/p>\nAmong them is a 15,000-home development in ManchesterThe Victoria North project is already under way(Image: FEC)<\/p>\n
Two sites in and around Greater Manchester have been identified among the first 12 ‘new towns’ to be built under Labour<\/a>. The government is hoping that these developments of 10,000 homes or more will help it hit its target of building 1.5m homes by 2029.<\/p>\n Housing secretary Steve Reed is set to announce the first 12 ‘new towns’ to be taken forward during a speech at the Labour Party<\/a> conference in Liverpool this afternoon (September 28). However, work on just three of these sites will begin during this Parliament.<\/p>\n Among the schemes on the list is the Victoria North development which is located between Manchester city centre<\/a> and Collyhurst where 15,000 new homes are planned across seven neighbourhoods with many of the new residential properties set to be ‘affordable’.<\/p>\n Work on this huge 20-year project is already well under way with the first new council estate at Collyhurst Village recently completed<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sign up to the MEN Politics newsletter Due North here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Also on the list of the first 12 ‘new towns’ is Adlington in Cheshire where a ‘standalone settlement’ will ‘serve’ Greater Manchester too.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, new towns in Tempsford in Bedfordshire, Crews Hill in Enfield, London and Leeds Southbank in West Yorkshire have been identified as the ‘most promising locations’ with work set to begin during this Parliament which will conclude by no later than 2029.<\/p>\n