Manchester City Council awarded £50 million to build thousands of new homes

The local authority has successfully bid for £51.6 million to build thousands of new homes on unused brownfield sites over the next two years.

The funding is part of the trailblazer agreement between the government and Greater Manchester to unlock brownfield land so it can be used for new housing, allowing the development the 31 long-term unused sites. 

The sites will see 3,380 new homes over the next two years, with 1,761 of those being considered ‘genuinely affordable’ housing.

Some of the housing developments to receive a portion of the funding include: 

• Victoria North- Manchester City Council & FEC (£6.9m) 
• Former Boddingtons Brewery – Latimer & Clarion (£3.1m) 
• Jacksons Brickworks – Your Housing Group (£5.3m) 
• One Cathedral Square – Property Alliance Group (£6.3m) 
• This City Sites (£10m) 
• Project 500 Phase 1 Sites (£1.8m) 
• Project 500 Phase 2 Sites (£1m)

These new homes are part of an ambitious target set in the Council’s Housing Strategy up to 2032, which includes the target to help build 36,000 new homes across the city. 

Councillor Gavin White, Manchester City Council’s executive member for housing and development, says the council are ‘on course to meet these targets’.

Mr White said: “We have been necessarily ambitious through our housing strategy, committing to helping to build 36,000 new homes up to 2032 – of which at least 10,000 will be genuinely affordable to Manchester people.  

“This is a challenge both in terms of available land and the funding necessary to build new housing at scale – but we are on course to meet these targets. However, we must be innovative and use the resources available to use. “

He continued: “As a post-industrial city, we have lots of brownfield sites that are sometimes difficult to develop, but this land represents a massive opportunity to deliver the homes – particularly the affordable housing our residents need.

“This funding is hugely welcome and we will help bring these unused areas of Manchester back into use.” 

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