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Chips is a building in New Islington, Manchester. 

Chips isn't just city living. It's about community, architecture, modernismo. It's about living with people, with wit, with canals, with space. It's about a new idea: a place to call home.

This isn't about us selling you an empty dream. This is about you living in the most innovative and punkest building in this city, in this country. This is your chance to get involved in a new idea, New Islington, a new place.

Not just fresh and sexy, but fresh and salty.

Not just a place to be, but a plaice to be. A place with SOLE.

Well that joke isn't funny any more, but you get the idea. Chips is different.

WHAT IS CHIPS
Alsop and Chips
Cheap as Chips
Long Live Chips
Urban Splash 'n' Chips

WHERE IS CHIPS
Chips in Manchester
New Islington 'n' Chips

CHIP SHOP
Apartment Enquiries
Apartment Specifications
Purchase Procedures
Disclaimer

Terms of Use
Privacy Policy


WHAT IS CHIPS

Isn't it weird how 'City Living' buildings tend to look the same? Stick-on-bricks. Blue windows. Some metal or something. Ding. NEXT. Identical, even though the signs say they are exclusive. How can thousands of identical apartments be exclusive?  But wait, what's this?

CHIPS to the rescue! No more same old same old.

Chips is different. Not just flats; it's a home. A landmark that's meant for living in. There's a café in the bottom, canals on three sides. Good for sitting. Just a lovely place to be.

Chips isn't exclusive: it's unique. This is Will Alsop's first residential building in Britain. Amazing and inspiring and funny. It's architecture not development.

We're aiming for something real; a place. Chips is a building full of people, not just faces but neighbours. This isn't a room in an empty corridor. It has a community around it; it's growing. 

Alsop and Chips

Why do all buildings have to look the same? Why are they all either a) boring or b) trendy or c) trendy and boring? Where is the originality? Where is the brown sauce?

Step forward Mr. Will Alsop. He's a saucy man and a supercool architect. He has big ideas. Chips is one of those big ideas. An amazing piece of architecture that doesn't lose its soul.

And who is this Will Alsop anyway? Alsop's architecture is Pop Art plus the social bits of Modernism. His idea of architecture is 'to make life better'.

How did it come to Chips? Alsop doesn't do boring, he does different. It wasn't designed to be a plate of chips, silly. He sliced a dirty great block into three to make it more human, less like an office. The design team saw it and thought: CHIPS (maybe they were hungry). Et Voila: les pomme frites. Die fritten. CHIPS was born.

The angle of the Chips means everyone's got their own space; some with balconies and roof gardens, all with nooks, crannies. The façade is a soft warm wood, one more thing that makes it a home. The names of ports that Manchester traded with are subtly printed on top. This building has got some depth. It isn't just 'stunning'; it's beautiful.

Some people don't "get" Alsop. They don't see how colourful and bright designs have a place in cities. People didn't "get" fire. They thought it was awful hot and burny. They thought it was a fad. Alsop isn't just a fashion. He is what we should have been doing when we were throwing all that concrete around.

Most people aren't aware that they are interested in architecture: they just like what they see, and they know which places they like to go. We think they, and you, will like this.

Cheap as Chips

The HOMEBUY SCHEME is another big idea. It means people with lower incomes, real people, can buy homes. That's what communities mean. Everyone has a share.

We want a mix in Chips; no ghetto, no charity, just a new way of living together. So out of the 142 flats in Chips, 50 will be sold to key workers and first time buyers.

Take our 'Am I a Key Worker' or 'First Time Buyer' test to find out if this is you:

Are you a first time buyer?  
Do you do a job that  Manchester needs but that doesn't pay you squillions?

Here's how it works...

You've got your basic housing problemo. Oh no, these houses are just too darned expensive. Owning your own home, pipe dream mate, ain't gonna happen. Then, BOOM, those lovely chaps at the Housing Corporation, working with MMHA cut you a deal with this homebuy scheme: so if it should've been £100 000, suddenly it's £60,000.*

Chips for everyone.

(* Price is an example only, final price details still to be confirmed).

Long Live Chips

Chips is part of something bigger, New Islington. Something sustainable.

Chips has an outside. Nearly half of New Islington is open space or water. Fingers of canals on both sides where the traffic-jammed streets should be. A real park next to the retail park.

It's part of a place. Chips is going to have everything you need around it; a grocers, a coffee shop, a beautiful launderette. The best fish and chip shop in the country, appropriately. It isn't just a development: it's going to grow.

It's green, super kind to the planet. New Islington is super-insulated, and uses green locally produced energy. It means you don't have to make an effort, or pay more, to be green. Easy on Mr Wallet, easy on Mrs Earth, easy peasy for you.

And Chips has a tomorrow: New Islington has a school, a clinic, places to play. City living is normally fake because everyone's the same age. Here, there are some families too. It takes a whole urban village to raise a child.

When you read about this, you realise that New Islington really is new. Abraham Lincoln was wrong: you can please all the people all the time. Developers, the existing residents, the fish, the planners, and tomorrow's residents. Everyone has a share. This is New Islington. This is Every Street. You and me.

Urban Splash 'n' Chips

If Urban Splash wore an 'I HEART' t-shirt, it would say:
Urban Splash HEARTS
Chips,
New Islington,
Manchester,
Will Alsop.

Urban Splash are involved in New Islington because we wanted a challenge. It's our most ambitious project to date, and all eyes are on us, and our partners: English Partnerships and Manchester City Council. Chips is just the start.

They say that where we lead others follow, and it's true. Urban Splash are doers. We do things differently, we do them with quality, and we do them with excitement. Have a look at Castlefield in Manchester or RopeWalks in Liverpool; where once it was wasteland, now it's special; thriving and award-winning buildings such as Timber Wharf, or Tea Factory.

The ambition for Chips was also special. Chips is Will Alsop's first residential development in the UK, and we are delivering it. We're very proud. And we're proving that the best housing, design, sustainability, can be a part of every development. It's something we believe in. And after the mistakes of the 60's, 70's and 80's, we need that belief.

We're more than just a property developer. There's no formula at Urban Splash, no pattern book or celebrity designers. It's about amazing architecture and appropriate, innovative development, without pretence. About buildings that are used and loved.

PEACE

WHERE IS CHIPS

Chips is in New Islington, which is in Manchester, capital of the planet supercool, and also a city in the North of England.

New Islington is Manchester's new Millennium Community, a new idea, building a whole community at once. Manchester is the best city in the world because it's the home of every revolution in style there's ever been. There is no better place for a new idea to take off.

Chips in Manchester

Manchester is in the background. Super-metro, but it's got a heart and a soul. Chips is a product of this soul. It's got balls. If you don't know anything about Manchester's history, type these four words into Google: Industrial Revolution Acid House. And you'll see that it's the coolest, bravest city in the world.

Manchester takes risks. Sometimes they pay off big time. For instance, Manchester had this thing called the industrial revolution, which has changed a few other cities too. Manchester invented the computer chip: we've got this counting machine you see, and we think it could, er, count lots.  BOOM the world changes. 

And it was in Manchester that they split the atom, which sort of led to the cold war and nuclear power. Oh well. As our good friend Meatloaf said: "two out of three ain't bad".

Will Alsop's Chips are also a first: his first residential development in this country. And it's in Manchester's spirit: the design and the taking risks. The desire for social change. Alsop has created a landmark, not just for architecture, but for living.

New Islington 'n' Chips

New Islington is just that: new. And it's old as well. It's about brand spanking 100% modern architecture, new ideas for living and working in one area, building landmarks, a destination. But we're using old ideas too: old ideas about public space and living together, on streets we share. Old ideas about civic pride.

New Islington was first shown on a map of Manchester 150 years ago, when this city was first going BOOM. Now it's going to be part of the new Manchester. One to be proud of.

The Story and the Change:
On the Cardroom estate, the chips were down. Cut off streets, empty houses, and a tired community. Cars off the road like Colin McRae, only the drivers were bored kids. A retail park instead of shops. Thank you 1980's and good night. Fin. The curtain falls. But people still live there, and care about it. It's still a community, albeit in a spiral of decline.

So it needed a change, and the change is: H O P E.

New Islington is this hope. Millennium communities are a response to places like the Cardroom, designed to be great: the greatest architecture, the most beautiful space, the friendliest people, the most sustainable place. All the best ideas we know. They are about a mix of people and ages and incomes, because a mix is stronger. But it's also about keeping the soul of the original community, because we've learnt that it's better to use what you've got than to sweep everything away. And we think it's going to last.

CHIP SHOP

Now serving... HOT CHIPS. A building cooked up by Will Alsop, served by Urban Splash, and, hopefully, savoured by you.

Chips Apartment Enquiries

There are 1, 2 and 3 bedroomed apartments available from under £100,000 to £300,000 plus.  If you would like more information about Chips, including a price list and details of the available apartments contact or call 07000 37 37 37.

• The 'A' apartments are a bit different from the others being 'L' shaped and they vary through the building as studios, one bedroom and two bedroom units. Most 'A's have an entrance area with storage and a study area designed in.
• The 'B' apartments are beautiful examples of Alsop's vision. They've a central pod containing the bathroom, kitchen and storage - the jewel in the space is finished internally with shiny surfaces of glass, lacquer and tile.
• The 'C' apartments, a bit bigger, give you choices with a large folding screen to separate part of the living space off to create a small extra bedroom or study. The pod, bigger here, incorporates more starage to lose all the clutter.
• The 'D' apartments have more space and more choice - a comfortable second bedroom can be created with a full height folding screen, or left open allowing an ample, flexible living space. The kitchen and bathroom pod glows!
• The 'E' apartments are getting big now, two double bedrooms, two bathrooms and a functional kitchen, dining, living space. The pod's exterior has a textured finish and glowing lights sitting in the space, contrasted by the clean, fresh finishes of the floors, walls and ceiling.
• The 'F' apartments are to die for, three big bedrooms each with their own bathrooms and an open living, dining space next to the pod where the kitchen and bathrooms gleam. Loads of storage and loads of extras make these apartments 'the dream come true'.

Apartment Specifications

• Double-glazed windows
• Timber flooring in living and bedroom areas
• Tiled floors to bathrooms
• Tiled or timber kitchen floors
• Painted plastered stud walls
• Painted plasterboard ceilings in kitchens and bathrooms
• Doors with stainless steel ironmongery
• Built-in storage

• Telephone, TV and satellite points in living area and main bedroom
• Secure door entry system with video link to TV
• Intruder alarm
• Apartment heating and hot water linked to CHP system
• Dedicated space for washer/dryer

Kitchens

• Range of fitted base and wall-mounted units with gloss finish and concealed handles
• Worktop with waterproof splash back
• Built-in containers for recycling
• Chrome finish mono block mixer taps
• Stainless steel sink and drainer
• Electric oven, ceramic hob and extractor
• Fridge with freezer compartment in types A and B, fridge freezer in types C, D, E and F

• Modern white ceramic sanitary ware
• Chrome finish taps and fittings
• Mirror
• Part-tiled walls

Balconies (applies to some apartments but not all)

• Timber decking
• Glass balustrade

• Lift to all levels
• Secure basement car parking available at extra cost
• Communal roof terrace
• Secure bicycle storage
• Recycling area in basement car park

Purchase Procedures

1. Reserve the apartment of your choice after the release date for a non-returnable deposit fee of £1000.
2. Appoint a solicitor to act on your behalf in the purchase.
3. Apply for a mortgage for the property (if required).
4. The developer's solicitors will issue a detailed information pack in relation to the title documentation. This is all your solicitor will need to take the transaction through to completion. The pack should be issued within one week of reserving the apartment.
5. You will be expected to exchange contracts on the apartment within four working weeks of the issue of the contract documentation.
6. If your mortgage offer has not been received within four weeks the contracts may, at the discretion of the developer, be exchanged subject to mortgage offer.
7. On exchange the purchaser will be required to pay a deposit of 5% of the purchase price. On a set date, approximately 12 months later, a further 5% will be required to be paid to the developer unless practical completion occurs before the expiration of the 12 month period.
8. If exchange of contracts does not take place within the required timescale, the property will be returned to the market or offered to purchasers on the waiting list.
9. Contracts will be completed once the apartment is fit and ready for occupation at which point the full purchase price will be required.

Lease
The apartments are to be sold on a Lease of 250 years.

Ground Rent
There will be a ground rent of £150 per annum on all one bedroom apartments, £250 per annum on all two bedroom apartments, and £350 per annum on all three bedroom apartments.

Service Charge
More details of the costs and what is included in the service charges is available from the Sales Office or call 07000 37 37 37.
Chips forms part of a wider estate - New Islington, and purchasers will be required to pay towards the upkeep of the estate.

DISCLAIMER

This website has been published before construction work has been finalised and is designed to be illustrative of the development. Whilst these particulars are believed to be correct, their accuracy cannot be guaranteed and during the course of construction there may be some variation to them.

Purchasers and tenants are given notice that:

1. These particulars do not constitute any part of an offer or contract.
2. All statements made in these particulars are made without responsibility on the part of the agents or the developer.
3. None of the statements contained in these particulars are to be relied upon as statement or representation of fact.
4. Any intended purchaser or tenant must satisfy him/herself by inspection or otherwise as to the correctness of each of the statements contained in these particulars.
5. The developer does not make or give, nor any person in their employment has any authority to make or give any representation or warranty whatever in relation to Chips or any part of it.
6. The selling agents do not make or give, nor any person in their employment has any authority to make or give any representation or warranty whatever in relation to Chips or any part of it.

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