Dozens of new homes are set to be built in north Manchester as part of a council plan to sell land on the cheap in return for affordable housing. The 45 homes to be built in Charlestown and Harpurhey are the first of 500 planned.
The Guinness Partnership has submitted plans to build 38 two-storey houses on an empty plot of land off White Moss Road and Woodmere Drive in the Charlestown area. The affordable housing provider has also applied to build seven properties between Palgrave Avenue and Queens Road in Harpurhey.
It comes after Manchester council agreed to sell 27 sites across the city where hundreds of new low carbon and affordable homes would be built. These council-owned plots predominantly in North and East Manchester - all of which have been developed before - are set to accommodate 378 homes.
