Government approval has been granted for a new 11–16 secondary school to serve the £4bn Victoria North regeneration in Manchester. The co-educational school will provide additional capacity for the major housing expansion in Collyhurst South and the wider Victoria North area, underpinning the social infrastructure needed to support thousands of new residents.
Victoria North is a flagship joint venture between Manchester City Council and Far East Consortium (FEC), covering 155 hectares of largely under-used brownfield land north-east of the city centre. Over the next 15–20 years, the programme is expected to deliver up to 15,000 homes across seven neighbourhoods, creating one of the UK’s largest new urban communities and helping to ease Manchester’s housing pressures.
The masterplan includes a 46-hectare City River Park, reconnecting communities to the River Irk and adding significant green and blue infrastructure to the development pipeline. The park is positioned as a key value driver, improving placemaking, long-term asset values and the attractiveness of adjacent residential plots to investors and housebuilders.
Delivery momentum is already building, with 430 homes completed and a further 550 under construction across the first phases. Planning consent is in place for an additional 4,801 homes, including a mix of private, affordable and council housing, and the first new social rent properties have been handed over in Collyhurst, signalling a tenure-balanced approach that will be closely watched by contractors, RP partners and funders active in the North West regeneration market.
