Crescent partnership eyes 2022 start for Salford Rise 

The near-five-acre podium aimed at unlocking sites for redevelopment and better connecting the 240-acre masterplan has received £13.17m from the government’s Levelling Up Fund. 

Salford City Council and the University of Salford appointed English Cities Fund as development partner for the £2.5bn Crescent masterplan earlier this year. 

Salford Rise is one of the first projects to come forward under the masterplan, seen as a key piece of infrastructure to enable future phases. 

The project will see an 11-metre-wide podium constructed over Frederick Road, aimed at removing a “significant barrier to movement” within the masterplan area and turning the area into a 15-minute neighbourhood. 

English Cities Fund is readying a planning application for the project and, subject to planning approval, aims to be on site with the project in the first half of 2022. 

The project team for Salford Rise comprises: 

The wider £2.5bn, 240-acre Crescent masterplan, aims to deliver 3,000 homes, more than 1m sq ft of space to innovate and collaborate, alongside 1m sq ft of offices, retail, leisure, a new multi-modal transport hub.   

Maggie Grogan, senior development surveyor at ECF, said: “This strong partnership with ECF, the council and the University of Salford is totally committed to delivering a unique brand of transformational and sustainable regeneration that connects people seamlessly with place, creates opportunities for all, with prosperity and wellbeing at its core.”  

Salford City Mayor Paul Dennett described the project as “an ambitious infrastructure and public-realm project that will foster inclusivity, and genuinely start to help to level-up Salford”.