Editing Moss Side (section)

==Redevelopment and regeneration==
[[File:Great Western Street - October 2009.jpg|thumb|Great Western Street runs through the centre of Moss Side.]]
[[File:Wykeham Street with Maine Place in background.jpg|thumb|right|Wykeham Street with the Maine Place development in the background]]
Moss Side has benefited from very substantial [[redevelopment]] and [[urban regeneration|regeneration]] since the mid-1990s including improvement of the existing housing and residential environment along with several major housing projects currently in process or nearing completion. There has been considerable renovation of existing housing stock, such as local terrace housing and the Alexandra Park Estate.<ref name="smrt2007p35"/>

A large site on Great Western Street has been developed by Moss Care Housing Ltd. to provide a mix of 2, 3 and 4-bedroom properties, with different tenures, some rental and others offered as [[shared ownership]] or [[Freehold (English law)|for sale]].<ref name="mosscaredev">
{{cite news |last1=Ali |first1=S. |last2=Cox |first2=A. |last3=Walters |first3=R. |title=New Houses for Moss Side |newspaper=New Labour Rose |date=Autumn–Winter 2010}}</ref>

The former [[Maine Road|Manchester City F.C. Maine Road]] site is in the process of redevelopment, marketed as Maine Place, primarily as 2, 3 and 4-bedroom houses but including a limited number of flats, for sale or shared ownership, with many homes completed and occupied, along with a primary school, now open, and a health centre planned.<ref name = "maineplace"/>

The Bowes Street area, adjoining Princess Road, has been redeveloped, at the cost of £17&nbsp;million, including the renovation or transformation, with some new build, of 155 properties in five streets.<ref name="bilsb"/><ref name="mossciderbbc">{{cite news |date=27 September 2010 |title=Moss Cider brews community spirit in Manchester |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/manchester/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_9036000/9036862.stm}}</ref><ref name="bowesstdev">{{cite book |title=Final Proposals for the Regeneration of Bowes Street, Moss Side |publisher=Manchester City Council |date=24 March 2010 |url=http://www.manchester.gov.uk/egov_downloads/5FinalProposalsForBowesStreet.pdf}}</ref><ref name="easierpropart">{{cite web |title=Infusion of enthusiasm in Moss Side, Manchester|publisher= Easier Property | url=http://www.easier.com/81937-infusion-enthusiasm-moss-side-manchester.html |date=15 December 2010}}</ref><ref name="placenwartdec10">{{cite web |last=Hunt |first=Michael |date=13 December 2010|title= Moss Side housing project to be unveiled
|publisher= Place North West | url=http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/archive/7879-moss-side-housing-project-to-be-unveiled.html}}</ref> Reported as being 'built or converted to a very high standard of [[Eco-friendly|eco-friendliness]], with [[solar panels]], [[water butts]], [[thermal break|thermal]] "skin" insulation and [[light tube|sun pipes]] being used' and aiming to offer 2, 3 and 4-bedroom homes with 'low running costs', the development plan states its aim, along with that at Maine Road, as being to provide mixed type "higher specification" housing, "diversify tenure" and promote the area as a "neighbourhood of choice".<ref name="bowesstdev"/><ref name="easierpropart"/>

Marketed as "Infusion Homes", the properties were launched on the market on 26 February 2011. On 9 May, sales demand was reported as strong, with 60% of the properties having been sold.<ref name="easier090511">{{cite web |date=9 May 2011 |title=Buyers flock to Moss Side £17m regeneration scheme |publisher=Easier Property |url=http://www.easier.com/88694-buyers-moss-side-regeneration-scheme.html}}</ref> On 11 May the development was awarded the UK's ''Best Affordable Housing Scheme'' at the national Housing Excellence Awards 2011<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.housingexcellence.co.uk/events/winners-housing-excellence-awards-2011 |title=Winners of the Housing Excellence Awards – 2011 |publisher=Housing Excellence |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313181045/http://www.housingexcellence.co.uk/events/winners-housing-excellence-awards-2011 |archive-date=13 March 2012}}</ref><ref name="easier210511">{{cite web |date=20 May 2011 |title=Housing Excellence Awards win for 'Infusion' |publisher=Easier Property |url=http://www.easier.com/89506-housing-excellence-awards-win-infusion.html}}</ref>

Land adjacent to the development, formerly occupied by Bilsborrow primary school and the [[Stagecoach Group|Stagecoach]] [[bus garage|bus depot]], both demolished as part of regeneration, remains vacant with no clear future use at present, though local community groups have short term plans to use the space for a gardening/food growing project.<ref name="msbdlfp0312">{{cite web|publisher=Cranswick Square Residents Group |title=Consultation on Moss Side Bus Depot site tomorrow |date=14 March 2012 |url=http://cranswicksquare.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/consultation-on-moss-side-bus-depot-site-tomorrow/}}</ref>

The impact of regeneration and redevelopment in changing perceptions of the area was demonstrated in ''[[The Guardian]]'' Saturday magazine, dated 8 September 2012, when Moss Side appeared in the long running ''Let's Move To'' series.<ref name = "letsmoveto">{{cite news |last=Dyckhoff |first=Tom |title=Let's move to Moss Side |url=https://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/sep/07/moss-side-manchester-property-roundup/ |newspaper=The Guardian |date=7 September 2012}}</ref>