Build-to-rent scheme to contain 723 homes with 50 classed as affordable
Gary Neville’s development firm has resubmitted plans for a 723-home residential tower in Manchester after cutting five storeys from the SimpsonHaugh-designed scheme.
The revised proposals for the 45-storey Stocktons scheme on Great Ancoats Street have been lodged with Manchester city council by Relentless Developments in a joint venture with the project’s original sole developer Liquid Business Manchester.
The original scheme would have contained 750 build-to-rent homes in two towers of 50 and 25 storeys on the site of the Stocktons warehouse, a series of former furniture showrooms dating to around 1900.
But the plans were unanimously rejected in January after receiving a flood of objections from locals concerned over loss of daylight to surrounding homes and the impact which the demolition of the Stocktons warehouse would have on the character of the local area.
The refusal came after the council deferred a decision on the plans twice to allow councillors to conduct a site visit and assess the daylight impact of the scheme, although planning officers had recommended the application for approval.
The redesign has cut 27 homes from the plans and amended the buildings’ facades with the new proposals also containing 4,385sq m of office space.
The joint venture has proposed 50 of the proposed homes as affordable, a share of less than 7%, to be provided ad Manchester living rent levels and managed through a lettings policy agreed with Manchester city council.
Relentless Developments chief executive Anthony Kilbride said: “From the outset, we have been determined that Stocktons should combine exceptional quality with meaningful social value.”
He said the scheme’s 50 affordable homes “will help key workers access high-quality homes in one of Manchester’s most exciting and rapidly evolving neighbourhoods. We believe this approach delivers genuinely affordable homes as part of a high quality, large-scale, build-to-rent development.”
The scheme will be Relentless Development’s first build-to-rent project with construction expected to start towards the end of 2027 and complete in 2032.
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