{"id":808850,"date":"2026-03-06T22:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/808850\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T22:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:53:15","slug":"massive-deal-will-see-1600-new-manchester-homes-with-more-than-20pc-affordable-starting-in-the-northern-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/808850\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive deal will see 1,600 new Manchester homes – with more than 20pc affordable – starting in the Northern Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

They’re spread right across the city<\/p>\n

The No. 1 Ancoats Green development, the first built by This City(Image: Manchester council)<\/p>\n

More than 1,500 new homes will be built across Manchester by the council, which has promised that more than one-fifth will be \u2018genuinely affordable\u2019.<\/p>\n

The council has struck a deal with the Greater Manchester Pension Fund to finance around 1,600 apartments and houses on brownfield parcels of land. While many of the homes will be available on the open market, at least 20 per cent will be let at the \u2018Manchester Living Rent\u2019, set at or below the local housing allowance level.<\/p>\n

Seven projects will be built by This City, the council-owned property developer behind No 1 Ancoats Green, a 129-home scheme which opened last year. Council leader Bev Craig called that \u2018a great start\u2019, but wants to kick on with construction.<\/p>\n

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She said: \u201cOur plan for 10,000 genuinely affordable, social and council homes is building record numbers. We built more last year than any year since the early 2000s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis partnership with the Greater Manchester Pension Fund will enable us to drive forward the work of This City to build the homes the city needs on council-owned land.<\/p>\n

\u201cCompleting No.1 Ancoats Green last year was a great start \u2013 but this collaboration with the Greater Manchester Pension Fund provides long-term assurance that we can bring forward and deliver even more ambitious schemes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe already have a strong pipeline of projects in place, including the next This City development in the Northern Quarter<\/a>, with further sites across Manchester. This means we are building many more homes capped at the Manchester Living Rent in the coming years .\u201d<\/p>\n

Town hall papers have named the seven sites where This City will build. They are Postal Street in the Northern Quarter (126 homes), Monsall Road in Harpurhey<\/a> (651 homes), Grey Mare Lane in Beswick (145 homes), Hyde<\/a> Road in Longsight<\/a> (84 homes), Kirkmanshulme Lane also in Longsight (88 homes), Heyrod Street in Piccadilly (no figure given) and Downing Street in Ardwick (181 homes).<\/p>\n

Construction work is expected to start on Postal Street next year, with other sites earmarked to begin in 2028, 2029, or 2030.<\/p>\n

The projects are expected to be signed off by a meeting of the council\u2019s executive at 3pm on Friday, March 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They’re spread right across the city The No. 1 Ancoats Green development, the first built by This City(Image:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,8828,29712,285,16,15],"class_list":["post-808850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-council","tag-manchester-development","tag-politics","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116184692086311423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808850","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=808850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}