Plans for UK’s ‘first of a kind’ LGBTQ+ Extra Care scheme approved

An artist’s rendering of the LGBTQ+ Extra Care development (Image: Manchester City Council)

Plans for the UK’s first purpose-built majority LGBTQ+ Extra Care social rent housing scheme have been approved in Manchester, with construction to begin later this year.

Dubbed the “first of a kind”, the development will include 80 one-and-two-bedroom apartments for those aged 55 and over. It will sit on the former site of the Spire hospital on Russell Road in Whalley Range in the south of Manchester, which has sat empty since 2019.

The project, which was co-produced by Great Places Housing Group, Russell Road Community Steering Group, Manchester City Council and the charity LGBT Foundation, will also include a neighbouring development of 40 shared-ownership homes.

“This is the first purpose-built LGBTQ+ majority Extra

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