Manchester has been allocated £7.82m in the second tranche of funding from an £81.1m funding pot for Greater Manchester
The Brownfield Housing Fund is a £400m national fund designed to support home building on brownfield sites to accelerate home building across the country.
Developing brownfield land is key priority for Manchester City Council to drive housing development on unused site to meet the city’s growing demand for quality, affordable housing.
This will help deliver around 522 new homes, and the majority to be affordable housing for Manchester people.
Manchester also received funding from the first trance. The chosen schemes across Greater Manchester must be ready to receive their funding allocation by 30 June 2021.
If schemes are unable to progress by that point, funding will defer to a reserve list of projects.
The sites to be funded in this tranche includes:
- Collyhurst Village, Collyhurst – 139 homes (part of the Victoria North project – formerly Northern Gateway)
- Back of Ancoats, City Centre – 275 homes
- Silk Street Development, Newton Heath – 69 homes
- Ancoats Dispensary – 39 homes.
Suzanne Richards, Manchester City Council’s executive member for housing and regeneration, said: “This funding is very welcome. The challenges in urban areas of remediating brownfield land can impact the financial viability of affordable housing.
“This funding will allow us to support the delivery of much-needed council, social and affordable housing to meet growing demand in the city.
“Everyone in this city deserves a safe, secure and affordable home and it is for this reason we have set an ambitious affordable home building target of at least 6,400 homes between 2015 and 2025.
“Despite the challenges of the last year we are on track to exceed that target.
“This is testament to the strength of the partnerships that Manchester has built with our social landlords in the city and our commitment to back affordable house building with Council land and resources.”
