ECF’s 263 Salford flats tipped for approval
The £69.4m Old Adelphi would see three blocks of apartments, including 112 affordable homes, built on a three-acre site that was once home to two notable and now-demolished structures: the listed Adelphi Building and the Stirling Prize-winning Centenary Building.
Salford City Council’s planning committee will debate the proposals from ECF – a joint venture between Muse, Homes England, and Legal & General – at its meeting next week. City council officers have recommended the project for approval.
Old Adelphi has been designed by Buttress Architects and sits within the £2.5bn Crescent Salford masterplan from ECF, University of Salford, and Salford City Council. The site is part of zone 5 of the masterplan, which was allocated for residential and creative uses with pocket parks and active travel links.
The apartment blocks would be accessed from Peru Street, Adelphi Street, or Cannon Street. Credit: via planning documents
Two of the three blocks would be L-shaped. These blocks, known as A and B, would also contain the market homes in the proposals. These would consist of 66 one-bedroom, 81 two-bedroom, and four three-bedroom apartments – 17 of which would be duplexes. Residents of these flats, which would all be for market rent, would have access to a lounge, movie/game room, and gym.
The third block, known as C, would hold 112 affordable apartments. The vast majority of these would be one-bedroom homes, with 11 set aside as two-bedroom apartments.
All three blocks would be six storeys at their highest mark. There would be a courtyard between them and shared access to eight accessible parking spaces near Peru Street.
There would also be a commercial unit of 900 sq ft on the ground floor of Block A.
An independent viability study conducted by Capita Property & Infrastructure put the total cost of Old Adelphi down as £69.4m. The gross development value of the project was listed as £66.8m.
In addition to Buttress, the project team includes CBRE, Re-form, Hydrock, Clancy, Tyler Grange, Hannan, Stephen Levrant Heritage Architecture, Virtual Planit, AEC, Max Fordham, Hollis, Graphite Security, Civic Heritage, RMS, and Social Value Portal.
You can learn more about the project by searching reference PA/2025/1422 on Salford City Council’s planning portal.
