Beefed up resi plans for Salford’s former Adelphi Lads Club emerge

Stockport-based developer Beluga Group and registered provider ForHousing want to build 63 apartments on the Cannon Street site, a much denser scheme than others previously proposed.

The partnership has tabled an application with Salford City Council to redevelop the former Adelphi Lads Club and the half-acre site it sits on into a 100% affordable development.

The scheme, designed by JDA Architects, is almost double the size of an earlier approved plan for the site. In 2021, developer Knightbridge won consent for 32 homes on the plot.

The site was then acquired the following year by Reform Developments, which put forward plans for 19 three-bedroom houses on the site. This application was later withdrawn.

Beluga and ForHousing’s plans for the site feature a six-storey block with 36 one-bedroom apartments and another 27 with two bedrooms, all available for social rent.

Subject to approval, the development would see the site brought back into continuous use for the first time since Adelphi Lads Club closed in 2008. It was briefly used as a bar in 2022.

The development would be located opposite another 100% affordable scheme, English Cities Fund’s 100-home Willohaus, which was approved last year.

Euan Kellie Property Solutions is advising the applicants on planning matters.

To learn more about the scheme, search for planning reference number PA/2024/1313 on Salford City Council’s planning portal.