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Plans to build 15,000 homes in a long-neglected corner of Manchester can now happen 'much quicker' as Labour announces the major project will be one of its first 'new towns' . Work on the Victoria North development, which sits between the city centre and Collyhurst, is already under way as part of a 20-year plan for seven neighbourhoods.

The government has now announced that the scheme has been identified as one of the first 12 'new towns' that it promised to build at the last general election.

Speaking at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Sunday (September 29), Housing Secretary Steve Reed said the move would 'restore the dream of home ownership'.

He said: "We’ll build homes people feel proud to live in. Communities with schools, hospitals, good public trans

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