Buttress Architects | Stagecoach

The ‘Stagecoach’ site is a six acre site fronting Princess Road in Moss Side. The home of a large bus depot for a century, the site is now being redeveloped into a major residential scheme, forming the next step in Manchester City Council’s wider regeneration strategy for the area.
The plans aim to increase the choice of tenure found locally to help make the neighbourhood an area of choice for families and Manchester’s growing population.

The proposals will deliver 258 homes including 204 one to three-bedroom apartments, 72 of which will be retirement living apartments, and 54 two and three-storey family homes.

The design intends to repair the ruptured existing urban grain and to integrate with the existing street patterns. The designs are at a scale and of a materiality that respects the typography of local late Victorian homes, while enriching the streetscape through restrained contrasting building forms and materials.
The plans also seek to establish well defined private and communal spaces. The proposed housing provides all principal rooms with direct access to private gardens. The new apartments will be provided with private landscaped parking courts, while the retirement living development will be built around, and focus upon, a private communal landscaped court, screened by hedges and trees for privacy.
Taking the traditional terrace as design precedent, the scheme is characterised by strongly defined pedestrianised streets which mesh seamlessly with the neighbourhood’s existing urban fabric.

A consistent repetitive rhythm will be established along the new streets, modulated in terms of frontage and roof profile by house type and articulated according to the increasing lengths of street from Broadfield Road towards Princess Road. The variety of house types and associated plot width and setbacks will give the streetscape additional variety.