The funding will help build 210 homes in total — 119 of which will be for affordable housing — at sites across north and east Manchester, with one in the city centre.  

Some 81 of the affordable homes are part of the council’s Project 500 initiative that works in partnership with the city’s registered housing providers to make available smaller, harder-to-develop pockets of land to increase the number of affordable homes available in the city.  

The project aims to build 500 affordable homes, with plans to exceed this number in the coming years.  

All of the Project 500 homes will be capped at the Manchester Living Rent to ensure they will be affordable to as many people as possible.

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The 129-home city centre site will deliver 38 affordable homes capped at the Manchester Living Rent, with 91 market homes subsidising the cost of affordable housing.  

Cllr Gavin White, Manchester City Council’s executive member for housing and development, said: “Post-industrial Manchester left a lot of unused, brownfield land across the city.

“Developing this land and bringing it back into use is an important part of our plans to deliver 36,000 new homes in the next 10 years — and we have an ambitious target to make sure 10,000 of these are genuinely affordable to Manchester people.  

“However, brownfield land is often more challenging to develop, and we also have lots of smaller plots that are financially difficult to build on.

“This funding will support our partnership with the city’s registered providers to build on these smaller plots of land as part of our Project 500 initiative — delivering the affordable homes our residents need.”