Where land becomes
legacy.
Mantle is one of the North West's most active strategic land promoters — identifying, promoting, and masterplanning sites that others cannot unlock. Our 20-year track record at Rivington Chase is the clearest proof of what patient, expert land promotion delivers.
Rivington Chase,
Horwich.
One of the largest residential-led regeneration programmes in the North West. Mantle — as Novo Bluemantle — is master developer, both as a major landowner and as joint venture partner with Bolton Council, on the transformation of the former Horwich Locomotive Works into a 1,700-home community.
The programme spans over 150 acres, has delivered more than 1,000 homes to date, and is supported by Homes England infrastructure funding and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. The celebrated heritage buildings — Rivington House, the Millwrights Shop, and the Pattern Makers — are being sensitively restored as the cultural centrepiece of the new community.
Housebuilder partners Bellway and Morris Homes are delivering the residential phases. The first major occupier deal — a purpose-built care facility with LNT Care Developments — was agreed in 2026, marking the beginning of the commercial and community uses phase.
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A disciplined approach
to unlocking land value.
We are long-term partners, not short-term traders. Our approach is built on deep local authority relationships, genuine planning expertise, and the capital and capability to see complex programmes through.
Site Identification
We identify sites with latent planning potential — often overlooked, constrained, or complex — where our relationships with local authorities and deep understanding of planning policy create a competitive advantage.
Promotion & Planning
We promote sites through the Local Plan process, working collaboratively with councils, statutory consultees, and communities to secure allocations and consents that unlock maximum land value.
Masterplanning
Where we are master developer, we take full responsibility for the vision — infrastructure delivery, heritage integration, phasing strategy, and the appointment of housebuilder partners to deliver at pace.
Value Realisation
Disposals are structured to maximise proceeds — whether through conditional contracts, option agreements, or phased land sales to national housebuilders and registered providers.
Built on the right relationships.
Joint venture partner — Rivington Chase masterplan
Infrastructure funding — Rivington Chase programme
Strategic planning alignment — Greater Manchester
Housebuilder partner — Rivington Chase
Housebuilder partner — Rivington Chase
Specialist occupier — care facility, Rivington Chase
Do you own land with
planning potential?
We work with landowners across the North West on a promotion agreement basis — funding and managing the planning process at no upfront cost to you, and sharing in the value uplift we create together.
Whether your land is in the Local Plan, on the edge of a settlement, or a complex brownfield opportunity — if it has genuine potential, we want to hear from you.
Discuss your land