Developers to battle for prime Salford site
Renault is selling its four-acre dealership on Trinity Way, a plot that could be transformed into a high-rise residential scheme featuring up to 750 homes.
The plot has been used as a car dealership since the 1990s and is currently occupied by a 52,000 sq ft showroom and surface car parking.
Renault has appointed Savills to find a buyer for the Salford site’s 218-year leasehold and the chance to redevelop such a well-located site is likely to pique the interest of some of the city’s high-profile developers.
The plot is located close to the emerging Greengate neighbourhood, where Renaker is active, and near several Salboy schemes.
Both developers are likely to look closely at the Renault opportunity given their history in the area and the fact that indicative work shows the site would be suitable for redevelopment into residential.
Feasibility work carried out by Jon Matthews Architects shows the site could accommodate between 700 and 750 units in buildings rising to 30 storeys.
Positive pre-application discussions with Salford City Council have already taken place, according to Savills’ marketing materials.
The site sits just outside the boundary of the city council’s Chapel Wharf Development Framework.
A site with potential to knit together the two ‘sides’ of Greengate that were severed with the construction of Trinity Way. Crucial to urbanise Trinity Way and make this area feel more like a city centre and less like a soul-less dual carriageway. Needs a design/development team with some creativity who can deliver a scheme which gives back to the city. Hoping for someone different to the usual three or four architects we see in Manchester.
By Anonymous
Great to see low value land uses turn into high value ones, the magic of vibrant growing cities.
By Rich X
Well that was only a matter of time
By DJ
I would encourage Salford Council and Planning to put a block on more high rise housing
By Anonymous
30 Storeys? Begone bungalow, this is Greater Manchester.
By Elephant
Only 30 storeys? :-O
By Giant Skyscraper Fan
Keep building, but don’t bother, with giving us doctors/dentists. More houses more people, more traffic. Salford is already full.
By Anonymous
30 storeys … Zzzz.
Get a 5 at the front!
By Tom
Will be challenging to meet the expectations of all parties involved (council, developers and local community) particularly as the current site use is a good barrier between Trinity Way and a very quiet secluded part of the area…..as one person said, it will take some creativity to get it to work right
By Anonymous
The best way to judge how good a building is, is by how tall it is!! Therefore the taller it is, the better it is!! Therefore to be any good it should be at least 100 storeys high!! Nothing else matters!!!
By Manchester Skyscraper Fanatic
Ok Skyscraper Fanatic, take a breath, we’ve already got lots of skyscraper’s, I agree 30 story’s is a bit meh these days but they can’t all be huge.
By Anonymous
“In creating a building, architects do think they’re making the world a better place. And then they hope to make the world an even better place by making another thing which will be even bigger than the last thing… and it is part of the pathology of being an architect to believe thus, and they do believe it, despite all the evidence to the contrary……” ……Jonathan Meades…
know who we’re talking about here don’t we
By anonymous
Gonna be a cool little skyscraper quarter to balance out with Deansgate.
By Anonymous
I love seeing all the development going on in Manchester, its vey encouraging, but we’re possibly at the stage now where developers need to be a little bolder with their visions, integrate these huge developments into the public realm more so that they become part of the community, and i also agree that 30 stories isn’t a little meh, also it would be a great idea to somehow merge Greengate and this site somehow, interconnect the two rather than having all these developments stand apart from each other….
By Cristoforo Littley
It would be nice to see some ambitious designs for this site than what we are used to seeing.
By Anonymous
Trinity way can be a bit hostile. A pedestrian bridge connecting this to Greengate would be great
By Anonymous
This site has great potential but the design of a tall building will have to take account of the nearby low rise houses and the potential impact on overlooking distances.
By Anonymous
I hope to hell they don’t make yet another gated community which blocks off public footways.
Give back to the people, add a public park as part of the development
By George
I hope they have proper ground floor commercial here. Potential for more activity.
By Prime Location
And you just know it’s going to be more featureless slabs of concrete that will probably need remedial work within ten years like so many others of the blocks in the area already.
By Stephanie Perrin
Council need to realise that trinity way and chapel
St are now residential areas and traffic need to be restricted to allow residents the benefits of having clean air and safe areas to walk
By Anonymous
Neighbourhoods can only flourish by becoming modern. Nice to see
By Karen Clark
Huge opportunity and I hope any plans include good animation at ground level and making Trinity Way feel more human friendly. Links to places like the river and the Eagle Inn will be important as well as the route into town.
By Andy Salmon
After living in this area all my life and watching the redevelopment of the area, it is just another high rise block of apartments which we do not need, making developers rich and giving Salford council more money from council tax which they desperately need due to no government funding. All this does is put a strain on further resources which we all need. Greed, greed, greed, that’s all this is.
By Jaffa
Another high rise development dwarfing the two story housing surrounding the said site. Councillors have at long last admitted they have made mistakes in granting other high rise developments in the area. Fingers and anything else crossed that they will continue to see the error of their ways and think seriously about this site.
By Bob Stephenson
Turning Manchester into a new London and Amsterdam at the same time exclusively for international investors and students, I already know where this is going
By Anonymous