On Saturday 29 February Urban Splash and Places for People are launching the much-anticipated second phase of homes for sale at Park Hill in Sheffield. 195 apartments have been designed by RIBA Stirling Prize winning team at Mikhail Riches – each of them duplex with dual-aspect views; we’re also updating the building's façade too. Come find out more from our team at the Park Hill sales office from 10am on the day. And don’t forget you can enquire about the workspaces we’re creating at Park Hill too.

On Saturday 15 February Urban Splash and Places for People are launching a second phase of Town Houses at Port Loop in Birmingham – with each home configurable by you the customer. Yup, you can dictate the layout of your home, choosing from hundreds of configurations including open plan options, loft living and garden living. Can’t wait ‘til then? The final remaining Town Houses in phase 1 are available now, with prices from £180,000 with Shared Ownership.

Architects Mikhail Riches are super proud to be creating the new homes at Park Hill and in this new blog, founding director Annalie Riches tells us about winning the design brief for the development following a creative six-way pitch, as well as her ambitions to preserve and upgrade the original fabric of Park Hill.

We’ve now completed our transformation of Beehive Mill in Ancoats, and to mark the occasion, architect Maurice Shapero - one of the city’s best, maverick designers - has blogged about redesigning the listed structure, musing over how a building made almost 200 years ago can still function so beautifully in a completely different age. The final remaining workspaces here are available now.

Later this week we’ll be hosting two Help to Buy events, assisting customers who want to own their own home in Manchester or Bristol. On Thursday 6 February, our teams at New Islington in Manchester and Copper Building in Bristol will be joined by Independent Financial Advisers who’ll guide eligible Help to Buy customers on purchasing with a deposit of just 5%!

We’ve won three more awards this month - taking our total now to 427. This week, our House by Urban Splash was awarded the Homes England Chair’s Award for Excellence; the award recognised the significance of the £90m deal we signed last year with Sekisui House, and the change of pace that our business is bringing to the housebuilding sector. The deal also won NW Insider’s Deal of the Year too, while Royal William Yard won SW Insider’s placemaking award.

Four new colleagues have joined our land team this year; head of planning Andrew Johnston, acquisitions manager Richard Dingle, bid manager Sam Thomas and Laurence Chipperton – acquisitions surveyor – all join our land director Katie Dean, helping us acquire new sites across the country. Their appointments have taken our headcount to more than 200 brilliant colleagues; want to join us? We’ve even more vacancies for talented and ambitious people here.

Our final apartments in Avro, Manchester are coming to fruition this year, giving buyers the chance to live amongst beautiful, original features in one of the city’s last undeveloped mills. Apartment 1.3 boasts 833 sq ft of living space, with exposed brickwork and beams making for a unique aesthetic. It also has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and is yours for £350,000.

Super start-up space at the refurbished Boat Shed in Salford Quays; this 262 sq ft unit is on the ground floor of the building, adjacent to the River Irwell. You and your team will benefit from landscaped outdoor spaces, newly designed offices, and amenities like neighbouring Lupo Caffe and the Manchester Metrolink stop outside. It’s yours for £5,240 pa.

“Urban Splash completed 116,000 sq ft of commercial deals in 2019, letting space across its portfolio.”
— North West insider on our commercial deals

“buccaneering property developer Urban Splash”
— The Telegraph on Urban Splash

“The modular industry is thriving... major players who have recently entered the volumetric modular arena (include) Japan’s biggest housebuilder striking a multimillion-pound deal that will see Sekisui House partner with Homes England and Urban Splash...”
— PBC today on our partnership with Sekisui House and Homes England

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