Council leader welcomes £1.5 million funding for Collyhurst regeneration

Over the next decade, Victoria North will become a new town with the city where 15,000 new homes will be across 155 hectares of brownfield land between Victoria train station and Queen’s Park in north Manchester.  Seven new and emerging neighbourhoods will be connected by high quality green spaces and the River Irk will be opened up and celebrated for the first time in decades.

Council leader Bev Craig said: “We welcome the news that the new government wants to work with us to help us build more homes and create more jobs for Manchester residents.

“Victoria North represents one of the most ambitious urban regeneration programmes in Europe and will see more than 15,000 homes built in the next decade, along with a range of employment, social, community, cultural and neighbourhood uses. Its delivery will transform 390 acres of brownfield and underutilised land in some of the most deprived wards of Manchester, creating a new town in Manchester, interconnected by quality green spaces which will open up and celebrate the River Irk.

“Already, hundreds of homes have been built as part of the regeneration programme, including 130 new council homes in Collyhurst that will be available to residents very soon, alongside a new community park.

“This £1.5 million government funding will help to unlock a key element of the vision for Collyhurst by supporting the development of a business case for a new Metrolink stop at Sandhills, that will better connect the Collyhurst neighbourhood to the wider city and region, linking our residents to employment and other services and opportunities.”