Salford takes the co-living plunge with Progressive Living towers

Contractor Kier will start work in late October on the 60,000 sq ft facility for healthcare courses, designed by AHR and earmarked for the Frederick Road campus.

After more than a year of deliberations, the city council has officially voted to buy Peel Group’s 50% stake in Salford Community Stadium in a multi-million-pound deal.

Early plans have been unveiled for extensive development along the River Irwell, with an active travel route stretching five miles from Salford Quays to the city centre.

Plans for a scaled-back scheme in Langworthy have been submitted to the city council following refusal of a larger development last year.

Alderley Group’s 46-apartment complex on the corner of Manchester Road and Bolton Road is due to be given the go-ahead this week.

Designed around a central green space and providing a new lease of life for one of the city’s most famous sites, Salboy’s Castle Irwell development in Charlestown is about more than just homes.

After years of nervousness about the emerging sector, the city council looks set to approve Progressive Living’s 568-unit development off Gorton Street next week.

The city council will next week sign off the acquisition of Peel’s 50% stake in the 12,000-seater rugby ground plus 27 acres of surrounding development land.

Rebecca Long-Bailey has formally hit out at Henley Investment Management’s plans for Regent Retail Park, citing concerns with the lack of affordable housing, “low number” of parking spaces, and loss of retail.

The developers are the first appointed as part of an initiative between the city council, Homes England, and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority aimed at delivering long-term regeneration projects at pace.

The developer behind plans for Europe’s tallest residential building is plotting a more bijou scheme close to Salford’s RHS Garden Bridgewater.

The law firm became the first company to commit to ECF’s 115,000 sq ft Salford office more than 18 months ago and has this week welcomed staff to the space.

The housebuilder has handed over the keys for 19 finished properties off Seaford Road to Sigma Capital Group this week.

Proposals for 90 homes on the former Regent Trading Estate off Oldfield Road have been submitted to the city council, a scheme first revealed by Place North West in June.

Campus Living Villages plans to demolish two 15-storey blocks in Pendleton and construct a pair of 28-storey buildings in their stead, increasing the number of beds on site by more than 800.

Located on Arrow Street, the scheme would provide 69 social rent apartments for elderly people, as well as a GP surgery.

Around a third of the town’s rundown shopping centre is to be demolished to make way for the site’s wholesale regeneration.

Looking to dock at the North Bay, Netherlands-based architect Ninetynine is drawing up innovative plans for a 180-guest-room vessel on behalf of The Good Hospitality Group.

The construction group’s civils division has been appointed to make a busy junction close to Salford Central station more pedestrian and cycle-friendly, while also delivering improvements along Chapel Street.