Great Places joined partners Countryside and Councillor Gavin White, Executive Member for Housing and Development at Manchester City Council last week (Thursday 10 November) to celebrate 130 much needed affordable homes and the opening of show homes at Belle Vue Place.
Built on the former greyhound and speedway tracks, Belle Vue Place forms part of an area undergoing exciting regeneration. Of the 277 new homes, 130 are affordable, mixture of 89 for social rent, 12 Manchester Living Rent homes and 29 for shared ownership. Countryside’s blind tenure approach means that all the properties are designed and finished to the highest standard.
Commenting on the event, Helen Spencer, our Executive Director of Growth, said:
“We’re delighted to have shown Councillor White around our new homes at Belle Vue Place, a new community that will provide 130 much needed affordable homes in an area of Manchester that so desperately needs them.
“Affordable housing continues to be a key priority in all of the areas we operate in, and Countryside shares our commitment to creating great homes across a wide variety of communities. Our partnership to date has allowed us to deliver 500 affordable homes to sites across Greater Manchester, from here in Gorton, Manchester to Chadderton in Oldham, Castleton in Rochdale, Partington in Trafford and Leigh.
“Our achievements to date highlight the importance and power of these partnerships, and we look forward to future partnership work allowing us to deliver further affordable homes across Greater Manchester.”
Joe Turner, Managing Director, Manchester and Cheshire East, Countryside added:
“Countryside has a strong record of working with a range of partners to deliver housing to regenerate areas and create communities to meet the demands of local areas.”
“We are pleased to be partnering with Great Places across a selection of our Manchester sites, working in collaboration to provide much needed affordable homes and as a result, creating places people love to live.”
Councillor Gavin White, Executive Member for Housing and Development at Manchester City Council said:
“Our focus in Manchester is to increase the number of genuinely affordable, high-quality homes available to our residents – and we have committed to supporting the delivery of 10,000 affordable homes over the next decade. The new homes at Belle Vue are a welcome addition to our affordable housing market and take us ever closer to our ambitious target, while also bringing brownfield land back into active use.”
Countryside is working with Great Places on seven sites, these include most of Countryside’s flagship developments in the region, such as Belle Vue, Millbank Lock and Radclyffe Green. As well as over 500 affordable homes, these sites also include a total of over 600 homes available on the open market and hundreds of homes for private rent, meaning Greater Manchester is benefiting from a whole market offer.
