Countryside and Great Places announce 150 new affordable homes in Oldham

Almost 150 new affordable homes have been built at three separate sites in Oldham.

In total, the Greater Manchester area is benefitting from over 500 affordable homes due to a flourishing partnership between Countryside, the UK’s leading mixed-tenure developer, and Great Places, one of the largest home building associations in the North.

This partnership is providing much-needed housing to help meet the urgent demand of local communities and has enabled hundreds of families across the region be in their dream homes in time for Christmas.

The sites include:

·       Radclyffe Gardens, Chadderton - 82 affordable homes

·       Radclyffe Green, Chadderton – 51 affordable homes

·       Heyside Grove, Oldham – 15 affordable homes

·       Belle Vue Place, Manchester – 130 affordable homes (89 social rent, 12 Manchester Living Rent homes, and 29 for shared ownership) 

·       Millbank Lock, Partington – 117 affordable homes

·       Calico Grove, Rochdale – 102 affordable homes

·       North Leigh Park, Leigh – 99 affordable homes

As well as the affordable element, these sites also include a total of over 600 homes available on the open market and hundreds of homes for private rent, meaning Greater Manchester is benefiting from a whole market offer.

Joe Turner, Managing Director, Manchester and Cheshire East, Countryside Partnerships, said: “Countryside has a strong record of working with a range of partners to deliver housing to meet the demands of local areas.

“We are pleased to be partnering with Great Places across a selection of our Manchester sites, working in collaboration to provide much needed affordable homes and as a result, creating truly sustainable communities for local people.”

Helen Spencer, Executive Director of Growth at Great Places, added: “Affordable housing continues to be a key priority in all of the areas we operate in, and Countryside shares our commitment to creating great homes across a wide variety of communities.

"Our partnership to date has allowed us to deliver 600 affordable homes to sites across Greater Manchester, from here in Gorton, Manchester to Chadderton in Oldham, Castleton in Rochdale, Partington in Trafford and Leigh.

“Our achievements to date highlight the importance and power of these partnerships, and we look forward to future partnership working allowing us to deliver further affordable homes across Greater Manchester.”

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