FLATS SET TO FILL THE SPACE WHERE LEGENDARY NIGHTCLUB ONCE STOOD

HUNDREDS of affordable new homes are set to be built on the site of a former pioneering nightclub.

- By ETHAN DAVIES

Housing association Mossacre St Vincent's (MSV) has announced plans to build 212 affordable units where The Reno nightclub once stood in Moss Side. In its 1970s heyday, the Barnhill Street basement club was home to nights filled with rare funk and soul records, imported from America.

The Reno was even rumoured to have hosted Muhammad Ali and Bob Marley.

However, it closed in 1986 and the building was later demolished.

Plans to redevelop the land have been long in the making, but now look set to become reality.