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 Salford Council accepts Chapel St deal
by Tom We're getting provisional messages through from Salford Council's planning meeting that a vote has been taken and the result is a unanimous yes to take the project forward. This is, however, a provisional yes and we will confirm with the Council in the course of the afternnon. The £650 million application was submitted in July last year, about £300 million more than is being put towards MediaCityUK on Salford Quays, and it includes plans to link sites such as Salford University and The Crescent, Chapel Street and Manchester business district of Spinningfields. “We’ve always appreciated that whilst MediaCityUK ‘makes us famous’ our regeneration of Chapel Street is what the URC will be judged by,” said chairman of Central Salford URC, Felicity Goodey. The floor space for the proposed development includes: 864 new homes, 390 hotel rooms, 24,000 square metres of active use space and 197,000 square metres of office space. Some change of usage is expected after the housing market struggled to pick up the pieces of huge drops in the north west. We will post more on this when we know the details. A statement from Central Salford URC is expected this afternoon. The main areas covered by the planning application are Irwell Quays This area is next to Manchester City Centre, bound to the north by Trinity Way and to the south by the River Irwell, it consists of hard standing and some scrubland while the topography is mainly flat. Commercial Quarter This area is to the east of the Quays and is bound by Salford Central train station to the north and a continuation of the River Irwell to the south. It consists of a large surface car park to the south of the station and office blocks. A new pedestrian bridge crossing the Irwell and linking the Quarter to Spinningfields is planned as well as a new square, riverside walkway and cycle route linked to Irwell City Park. New public realm will feature throughout the area linking the Irwell Quays, Salford Station and Gore Street. The Mark Addy public house will be redeveloped and Riverside House will be retained for commercial and leisure use. New "apartment-led" residential developments are also planned on the banks of the River Irwell. However, the Central Salford URC is at pains to suggest that family homes, and not "yuppie apartments" are at the core of what the application is about. Chapel Street South Land south of Chapel Street will be the focus for new development with a mix of uses for office, commercial, retail and residential providing an active frontage on to Chapel Street. Alongside this new development the Bell Tower and Ye Olde Nelson public houses will be retained and converted for commercial/leisure use. The retail, office and studio floor space will be focused on the promotion of creative and local business. Elsewhere the focus will be on family town houses linked to Islington Estate and provision of new local shopping provision for the community, including a neighbourhood supermarket. Chapel Street North No changes are proposed to existing buildings. However improved public realm, streets and footpaths are planned with a new civic square and public space improving the setting of St Philips church. Adelphi Street, to the north of the former Salford Royal hospital on Chapel Street is planned to be a mixed-use development of "apartments with a central courtyard".
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