Green light for 172 homes in Hulme
TWO planning applications have been approved by Manchester City Council for the building of 172 new homes to be made available for market rent on Royce Road and Leaf Street in Hulme.
The project, known as Hulme Living, will see a mixture of two-bed apartments and three-bed townhouses built across the two sites.
The new homes will be delivered by One Manchester, a community development and place-making organisation responsible for managing more than 12,500 homes across south and east Manchester.
Hulme Living is One Manchester’s first new build scheme since the organisation formed in 2015 from the merger of Eastlands Homes and City South Manchester Housing Trust.
It says all revenues earned from the new homes will be reinvested back into community development programmes – including future housebuilding – to help improve lives and the wellbeing of people living in One Manchester’s communities.
Work is planned to begin on both sites in the spring and is expected to take around 18 months to complete.
A building contractor for the work is expected to be announced in the next few weeks.
Dave Power, chief executive of One Manchester, said: “Hulme Living is an extremely exciting project for One Manchester as it gives us an opportunity for the first time to build new market rent homes for people in the city.”
The new homes on Royce Road will consist of 67 two-bedroom apartments designed by OMI architects and will be situated on a corner site where Royce Road meets Chorlton Road.
The development on Leaf Street will have 105 new homes adjacent to Princess Parkway. Designed by Mecanoo, the site will offer a mixture of two-bedroom apartments and three-bedroom townhouses.
