Your Housing Group welcomed a delegation from Homes England and Manchester City Council to celebrate the completion of a 216-home development, transforming a former brownfield site at Edgefield Green in Openshaw into a vibrant new community.

Offering homes across Rent to Buy, shared ownership, affordable rent, and social rent tenures, Edgefield Green provides high-quality, affordable housing for a wide range of residents.

The £33.1 million development was delivered with the support of a £9.03 million grant from Homes England and includes a diverse mix of affordable housing options, with six of the new homes powered by cutting-edge energy-efficient technologies with the aim of reducing energy costs for residents. This includes the use of air source heat pumps, mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR), solar panels with battery storage, and wastewater heat recovery systems. These houses will have their energy costs monitored and will help inform future decisions about how to make homes more carbon neutral.

A delegation from Your Housing Group, including Group Chair Mike Gaskell, were joined by guests from Homes England, Manchester City Council, Lovell Partnerships and CPC Project Services. The quality of the new homes was summed up by one of the residents who said, “you’ve given us our forever home, thank you so much!”

Lorraine Donnelly, Executive Director of Asset and Development at Your Housing Group, said: “It’s been great to come back to Edgefield Green and see it completed. Speaking to the residents, you get a real sense of the community which is taking shape here and it’s an amazing transformation from what this site was just a few years ago. I’d like to thank our partners for their hard work to deliver a development that’s not only affordable and high-quality, but also future-focused.”

Cllr Gavin White, Executive Member for Housing and Development at Manchester City Council, said: “It was good to visit the recently completed Edgefield Green housing development in Openshaw with our key partner Your Housing Group – these 216 affordable homes on a former brownfield site are a fantastic investment for this community in East Manchester. We know how important it is to get a wide range and size of homes, and a variety