Approval tipped for 100,000 sq ft Salford sheds

CBRE IM and Chancerygate are hopeful of securing consent to build nine industrial units across two blocks on 11 acres next to the Salford Community Stadium.

Salford City Council has recommended the joint venture’s 100,000 sq ft plans for approval ahead of a meeting of its planning committee next week.

The application to develop the site was lodged in March more than two years after Chancerygate and Salford City Council failed to agree terms on the proposed sale of the same plot.

Since then, the council has taken full control of the stadium and surrounding land and Chancerygate came back to the table, accompanied by CBRE IM, to do a deal for land located north west of the stadium and bound by Salteye Brook

There have been no objections to the project through the planning process.

Hourigan Planning is advising on planning matters and Horizon Fletcher Rae is leading on design. Urban Green is advising on ecology.

To learn more, search for reference number PA/2025/0383 on Salford City Council’s planning portal.

The scheme would be the first phase of industrial development around the stadium. Last year, Cole Waterhouse pulled out of plans to deliver 300,000 sq ft of shed space on another site close to the ground.

The land around the 15,000-seater stadium forms part of the Western Gateway growth zone, which includes Port Salford and is the subject of plans to establish a Mayoral Development Corporation to ramp up delivery.

CBRE IM and Chancerygate’s plans will be determined at the same meeting as Henley Investment Management’s controversial proposals for 3,300 homes at Regent Retail Park.