{"id":550145,"date":"2025-11-05T06:49:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/550145\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T06:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:49:16","slug":"how-eight-manchester-high-streets-will-change-in-plans-worth-hundreds-of-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/550145\/","title":{"rendered":"How eight Manchester high streets will change in plans worth \u2018hundreds of millions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

More areas are lined up after proposals for Gorton and Moston were revealed last month(Image: Manchester City Council)<\/p>\n

The next EIGHT high streets set to receive a major makeovers have been confirmed by Manchester council.<\/p>\n

Town hall bosses have promised to revamp Manchester\u2019s suburban centres with hundreds of millions of pounds going on new public spaces, shops, and homes in-and-around existing high streets.<\/p>\n

Last month, final plans were confirmed for Gorton<\/a> and Moston<\/a>, with \u00a360m earmarked for the former\u2019s Hyde<\/a> Road heartland, set to create a new food hall and 400 new homes. Moston Lane will get a new public square, shops, and more than 100 flats in a \u00a390m project.<\/p>\n

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Strangeways and Wythenshawe<\/a> have also previously been named as suburbs set to see cash pour in, with \u2018half-a-billion pounds\u2019 heading to the south Manchester town\u2019s civic centre.<\/p>\n

And now, Manchester council says improvements will be made to Newton<\/a> Heath, Harpurhey<\/a>, Cheetham, Levenshulme<\/a>, Longsight<\/a>, Burnage, Fallowfield<\/a>, and Chorlton<\/a> \u2018in the coming years\u2019.<\/p>\n

(Image: Manchester City Council)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have many distinct centres, local centres and high streets across the city and we are committed to delivering for the residents and businesses who live and work in them \u2013 because we know how important these places are to the residents they serve,\u201d said Gavin White, executive councillor for development.<\/p>\n

In north Manchester, Harpurhey <\/strong>is in line for 300 new homes and a \u2018Harpurhey Health Hub\u2019, with Cheetham <\/strong>already seeing \u00a3100,000 spent on its high street, but more work will be done to examine \u2018potential projects at St Luke\u2019s Church and St Mark\u2019s church yard\u2019 in the area as a six-month programme \u2018looking at issues in the district centre\u2019 gets underway.<\/p>\n

(Image: Manchester City Council)<\/p>\n

Newton Heath <\/strong>is getting a masterplan to help steer the development of \u2018housing, community facilities, local services, and high street investment\u2019 next year.<\/p>\n

South Manchester has five areas seeing changes. \u2018Community-led cultural events\u2019 will become a fixture in Levenshulme<\/strong> to keep people visiting Stockport<\/a> Road, as affordable housing is planned in the next year.<\/p>\n

Just up the A6, in Longsight<\/strong>, a similar programme of events, public art, and greening will give the area some TLC, as a deep clean and declutter is eyed. The plan in Burnage<\/strong> is for new planting and public realm improvements, including cycle lanes and public art.<\/p>\n

(Image: Manchester City Council)<\/p>\n

Fallowfield<\/strong> will also get a large mural celebrating Manchester\u2019s student capital and one time FA Cup final hosts, with more housing and better public realm planned for the suburb as Manchester council tries to attract students closer to the city centre.<\/p>\n

And Chorlton <\/strong>will see more primary medical care facilities, public artwork, and a new over-55s social rent complex, set to open next year or 2027.<\/p>\n

The disparate nature of the projects was an intentional choice, according to Becca Heron, the council\u2019s strategic director of growth.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday (November 4), she told the authority\u2019s regeneration scrutiny committee: \u201cWe need a differential approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome areas are in for large-scale regeneration. Others, it\u2019s about protecting character of the centre and building on that. We are taking a comprehensive approach to review what each centre needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the newly-announced areas do not have funding to complete the work at the moment, Coun White confirmed the same meeting, held in Abraham Moss.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen there\u2019s funding available, we want to get that for a district centre,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the key thing we have found is that we need a plan. [This] is something we can present to the government to say here\u2019s our plan, help us fund it. We can attract private investment [with it].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More areas are lined up after proposals for Gorton and Moston were revealed last month(Image: Manchester City Council)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,26696,1849,8832,393,8855,23941,4884,2968,8826,19420,2465,8828,17557,11637,285,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-550145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-burnage","10":"tag-cheetham-hill","11":"tag-chorlton","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-fallowfield","14":"tag-gorton","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-harpurhey","17":"tag-levenshulme","18":"tag-longsight","19":"tag-manchester","20":"tag-manchester-council","21":"tag-moston","22":"tag-newton-heath","23":"tag-politics","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115495761972137568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550145","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=550145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}