Approval locked in for Salford riverside homes
J2 Corporation has agreed to pay a £400,000 in developer contributions to unlock a 50-home project on the banks of the river Irwell.
Salford City Council granted consent in principle for the scheme last year and now that a Section 106 agreement has been signed, all permissions required to make a start on site are in place.
J2 Corporation has agreed to pay £400,000 in developer contributions to unlock a 50-home project on the banks of the river Irwell, despite a submitted viability assessment demonstrating the project cannot support any financial obligations under current Section 106 policy, the developer said.
While a viability-based mechanism has also been agreed, allowing for a potential further contribution of up to £2m, this would only apply in the event that the development exceeds standard profit expectations, J2 added.
Plans for the redevelopment of a 2.7-acre former industrial site off Regatta Street that overlooks the River Irwell were lodged in 2023.
The plot is located next to Keepmoat’s Riverbank View, a 430-home project stretching westwards from Littleton Road to Balfour Street along the Irwell.
A planning statement prepared by WSP states that J2’s scheme is “sustainably located and well-positioned to access the city centres of both Salford and Manchester…[and]the River Irwell provides an accessible active travel link directly to and from the site.”
The scheme, designed in-house by J2, would provide a mix of three-, and four-bedroom homes.
The project team includes Vectos and CW Studio.
To learn more about the scheme, search for reference number 23/81687/FUL on Salford City Council’s planning portal.
Any progress on the Lidl at Cromwell Road? This area is crying out for a decent small supermarket
By Anonymous
Hi Anonymous. The Lidl on Cromwell Road is open. Best wishes, Dan
By Dan Whelan
£48,000 per dwelling in S106 contributions.
In this location that must be equivalent to the plot value.
No wonder there is a viability gap!
By UnaPlanner
Look awful because it look like 1950s factory style it, seem don’t be right, need to change design to like the mill style is much better.
By G J Kitchener
The mill style is better than factory style.
By G J Kitchener
The local infrastructure will not cope. How are SCC providing the necessary support for this build in terms of roads, dentists, GPs & additional support to water companies for taking up precious water resources? Will they build a reservoir for all this additional water usage…..NO!
By Ian Thomson
As building on brown land is more preferable to digging up on fresh green areas… Please niote building right next to the River… Residents will certainly smell the river in the summer and spring time and certainly not in a good way… Hope the proposed properties don’t add to River pollution… As other residential blocks have done..
By Kolin Richmond Hughes
Hi Dan, thanks for confirming. Google street view isn’t updated with images so I was afraid it had foundered having not been to the area for a while.
Looking on the store website it looks like they succeeded in agreeing a higher quality design and layout than is usually the case as you can see at Fitzwarren Street or Lower Broughton for example. This was necessary at this important junction. All-in-all a great win for the fast improving Charleston and Kersal area of Salford.
By Anonymous
Ian Thompson – It’s 50 new homes, I hardly think it requires a new reservoir. Some perspective please.
By Anonymous
The council should continue to refuse any development without S106 payments.
By Bernard Fender