£41m boost could kick-start housing plans
LOCAL LEADERS POISED TO ALLOCATE FUNDING
AROUND £41m could be spent unlocking the development of more than 2,700 potential homes on brownfield sites across Greater Manchester.
The combined authority has confirmed that 21 projects will be supported by the latest round of grants through the government’s £400m Brownfield Housing Fund (BHF).
Greater Manchester has been allocated £81.1m from the fund to spend until 2025, with leaders expected to approve a list of sites that will benefit from the latest round of funding this week.
Of the 2,720 homes there will be 1,350 affordable units that could be a mixture of affordable and socially rented properties, as well as shared ownership schemes.
The aim of the BHF is to support projects which have stalled due to high costs of bringing them back into use, or to explore the potential of sites that have yet to come forward.
By prioritising former industrial land, local planning authorities can avoid building on greenfield sites – including Greater Manchester’s much-valued green belt.
In October the Greater Manchester Combined Authority backed plans to provide £21.7m in grants to support plans for 4,353 homes on brownfield lands across the city-region.
Carrington Village in Trafford, North Leigh Park in Wigan and
Riverside in Rochdale were among the major housing developments to receive funding in the first phase. Tomorrow, leaders will be asked to allocate £41.1m in the second phase to accelerate development on the following sites:
Manchester
Collyhurst Village – £2m: Collyhurst’s ‘first major regeneration in 50 years’ will see hundreds of new homes built - including 100 for social rent - and a new park.
Back of Ancoats £4.7m: Manchester council wants to create a new neighbourhood around Poland
Street with ‘high quality’ public space, 275 new homes, offices and green spaces
Silk Street - £1m: Plans to build a mini-estate of affordable homes on the site of a former cotton mill in Newton Heath
Salford
Central Salford - £1.5m: The BHF funding will go towards unlocking 100 homes as part of the £650m regeneration of the inner city area proposed by Salford council and The English Cities Fund.
Longshaw Drive - £2.9m: Salford council wants to build 177 new homes in Little Hulton. Neighbourhood Seedley - £680k St Lukes - £710k
Clifton and Ordsall - £1.6m
Rochdale
Neighbourhood Rochdale £4.7m: Capital and Centric’s plans to redevelop the former Central Retail Park with 200 homes, a park and a gym will receive £4.7m.
Don Street - £3.6m
Tameside
Hattersley Central - £3.2m Harehill Tavern and Harehill MMC - £640k
Moor Lane - £2.2m Central Street £3.6m
Stockport
West Vale Redevelopment - £1.1m Southlink - £4.5m
Bolton
Former St Thomas’ Hospital £1.7m: Plans to convert the former psychiatric hospital into a 70-bed care facility with 68 affordable homes were lodged with Stockport council last year.
Bury
Wheatfield Centre - £350k
Trafford
Sale West Phase 2 - £600k
Wigan
Land East of Phoenix Way £680k: The council has allocated the brownfield land in Ince for 99 homes