Manchester council wants to ramp up the number of homes being delivered across the city over the next six years from 20,000 to 32,000 units.

In a report presented to the borough’s economy scrutiny committee today, the council said it wanted to increase its pipeline of affordable homes between 2015 and 2025 by 60% in order to meet what it called “exceptional demand”.

Of the new target of 32,000 new homes at least 6,400 – or 20% – would be affordable, split between social and affordable housing and shared ownership.