Manchester City Council is set to review a report on Wednesday, January 22, proposing a series of land disposals to help deliver more than 700 affordable homes across the city.

The initiative builds on a record-breaking year for affordable housing in 2023/24, which saw the highest level of delivery in a decade. This progress supports the Council’s ambitious housing strategy to build at least 10,000 genuinely affordable homes, including Council and Social Rent properties, by 2032.

Addressing Housing Needs

To achieve this target, the Council will continue working with the Manchester Housing Providers Partnership, a collaborative effort aimed at creating sustainable affordable housing. The new homes will help alleviate pressure on Manchester’s housing register and contribute to reducing homelessness.

Recent additions to the partnership, Legal & General Affordable Homes and L&Q, expand its capacity and enhance resources for delivering the city’s housing strategy through 2032.


The report details plans for ten brownfield sites aimed at addressing local affordable housing needs by offering a mix of housing types and tenures, including specialist supported accommodation, apartments for key workers and right-sizers, and larger family homes. These proposals are designed to provide a diverse range of affordable housing options while revitalising underused land across the city.

Pending Executive approval, the plans will proceed to pre-application engagement with the Local Planning Authority. Public consultations on the designs are expected to begin soon, with construction anticipated to start as quickly as possible.

Various 100% affordable housing land disposals include:

• The first phase of new housing at Grey Mare Lane and the delivery of the new masterplan for the east Manchester estate. The site will deliver 76 social rented homes by Great Places as part of a long-term plan to deliver more than 500 new homes.

• Replacement of the derelict Apollo Pub in Miles Platting that will see 31 homes for social rent by Jigsaw Housing, complementing the PFI programme that has delivered 480 new family homes in the last decade.

• 12 bespoke supported accommodation homes in Clayton to be delivered by Mosscare St Vincents (MSV) to help meet the need for specialist homes for adults with learning difficulties and autism.

• Disposal of the former Levenshulme Cricket Club land, which has been unused for some years, to deliver 50 affordable larger family homes by Southway Housing. The former leisure centre site in Levenshulme could also deliver 30 new affordable homes.

• The Peacock Centre in Gorton will deliver 70 affordable homes by Clarion, while Southway are proposing nine new affordable homes on Wilbraham Road in Chorlton.