Sportcity Living is an important new residential quarter and a key element in the regeneration of East Manchester.
In 1999 the housing market in East Manchester was in a state of collapse, typified by wide-scale abandonment and private houses being sold for less than £2,000 each.
Working closely with New East Manchester, Countryside Properties produced a masterplan to create a new residential quarter in Sportcity. It was essential that the new homes not only successfully regenerated East Manchester's residential housing market, but provided a new high quality environment at the heart of the regeneration area. As such, the masterplan was designed to bring to life those key elements of East Manchester that had been ignored for decades, including Philips Park (Manchester's largest and oldest city park) and the Ashton Canal.
Together with New East Manchester Limited, Countryside Properties has grown an existing outline permission for 360 homes into a new community comprising over 750 new houses and apartments. Some of the homes in the later phases have been available via Homes and Communities Agency's First Time Buyer Initiative and HomeBuy Direct.
The latest phases use a pre-cast concrete construction solution for improved quality and noise insulation. The works involve the erection of pre-cast concrete walls, stairs, landings, floors, lintols and steel beams. All phases are now complete.
Sportcity in its entirety will be a unique mix of residential, sport, leisure, and retail development and is one of the UK's most extensive regeneration programmes, situated next to the Commonwealth Games stadium in Beswick, New East Manchester.
The Sportcity regeneration programme led by New East Manchester working with AMEC Developments comprises around 1,100 hectares adjacent to Manchester's vibrant City Centre. Over the next 10-15 years it is expected to attract around £2 billion pounds of public and private funding which will drive forward improvements in employment, education, health, housing and crime.
Information correct as at 24/09/2010