Chapel Street rubber stamp

Published: 2010-02-08 09:53:38

Proposals for the redevelopment of the Chapel Street area to the west of Manchester's retail heart receive a mix of outline and full consent.

Proposals for a major mixed-use scheme spanning an area the size of 21 football pitches in a rundown area just yards to the west of Manchester's commercial centre have been granted a mix of outline and detailed planning permission. (Sourced from regen.net.)
 

The plans to redevelop Salford's Chapel Street area, submitted by the English Cities Fund (ECF) - a joint venture comprising Muse Developments, Legal and General and renewal quango the Homes & Communities Agency - were approved by Salford City Council last month.

Most of the zones that make up the scheme have been granted outline permission, while highways work has received detailed planning consent.

The proposed development, covering 18ha, includes plans for 849 new homes, 390 hotel rooms, 24,000sq metres of retail, food, drink and entertainment space, and 197,000sq metres of office space.

Chris Farrow, chief executive of the Central Salford urban regeneration company, said that work to improve the area's public realm - including "calming and civilising" the main road through the site and measures to increase pedestrian space - could now begin as early as April.

He said that the scheme's backers had needed to negotiate with trunk roads body the Highways Agency over plans to alter Chapel Street - one of the main western approaches into Manchester city centre - so it "works both as a thoroughfare and a public realm". Farrow said: "Highway engineers do love their black-top. But they've been very good about this."

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