Muse gets green light for office-to-apartments conversion

Developer Muse and Wythenshawe Neighborhood Housing Group submitted three separate planning functions for 422 new inexpensive properties in December 2025.

Now, works on two of the three new communities – C2 The Birtles and Brotherton Home – can start, with the third – Alpha Home – anticipated to get the inexperienced mild within the coming weeks.

Brotherton Home, a former workplace constructing, will probably be reworked into 216 new properties, together with an additional care condo constructing with 109 properties for folks in later life and people residing with dementia.

The plans additionally embrace 81 flats and 25 two- and four-bedroom townhouses, with new landscaped gardens and inexperienced areas to encourage native wildlife.

C2 The Birtles is located subsequent to the previous market sq.. The retail and workplace area which is at present there will probably be changed with 81 one- and two-bedroom flats, alongside new floor flooring retail area to enrich the broader civic providing.

Alpha Home, which is at present awaiting a planning determination has now been demolished and will probably be rebuilt to offer 125 one- and two-bedroom flats, together with 16 wheelchair accessible properties.

Joe Stockton, Improvement Director at Muse, stated: “Central to our shared imaginative and prescient for Wythenshawe City Centre is creating new properties that folks need to stay in and that they will afford. We’ve responded to public suggestions and to market necessities to ship a variety of appropriate properties for these in later life or residing with long-term diseases, all properly as those that have to be near Civic and the advantages that brings.

“We’re thrilled to have acquired approval for the primary two of three new communities, which signifies that we will preserve the momentum that we’ve constructed updated, and create properties for everybody.”

The broader masterplan for Wythenshawe will see as much as 2,000 new properties created over the following 10 to fifteen years, which can complement the broader funding at present underway in Civic, which is supported by £20 million of Authorities funding and £11.9 million from Manchester Metropolis Council.