Peel gets ball rolling on £500m Bury masterplan
A consultation has been launched concerning land west of Elton reservoir, a site that could accommodate 3,500 homes and local centre amenities.
Peel L&P’s proposals would include new open spaces and parkland with leisure and nature uses, health facilities, new primary schools, and improved access into Radcliffe. The site is allocated within the emerging Places for Everyone pan-Greater Manchester housing strategy.
The property group’s housing arm Northstone would be expected to lead on housing delivery. Peel’s professional team includes planning consultant Turley, masterplanner JTP, transport advisor TTHP, and ecology consultant TEP.
Improvements to the local transport infrastructure would include a new link road connecting Bury in the north with Radcliffe in the south, while a new Metrolink station could be added in at Warth Fold. Peel said that there would be a council tax uplift of £9m for Bury Council resulting from the scheme to improve local services further.
The plans have been formed around the Elton and Withins reservoirs, which will be retained and enhanced.
More than two-thirds of the site will remain as green space and parkland, with the intention being to improve access to the public rights of way that exist in the area.
Nick Graham, Peel L&P’s associate director of planning, said: “After spending years carefully developing this vision alongside the PfE plan, we are delighted to share the proposals for land west of Elton Reservoir which will provide much-needed new homes, transport, leisure and recreational facilities, and economic investment to Radcliffe and South Bury.”
The PfE plan has earmarked the site for up to 3,500 new homes which would include affordable housing options and homes to buy or rent for families, first-time buyers, and downsizers as well as retirement and extra care living.
There are two listed buildings within the site’s footprint, while a Roman road runs through the western part of the site.
Graham continued: “Radcliffe is a place with a huge potential with great transport links and local shops and services, and we’re committed to creating a neighbourhood that brings investment and supports further regeneration.
“We are still at an early stage of the process and are keen to hear what local people think. This is the first of multiple stages of consultation and the feedback we receive will be taken on board as our plans progress.”
You can read more about the proposals at the consultation website. Comments are invited until 10 April.
And virtually everyone I speak to have expressed their concern & anger of the proposed destruction of our greenbelt and all are against this going ahead, but will council listen doubt it, they’ll just see £ signs from peel
By Anonymous
Can we please improve motorway connectivity along the A666 so that drivers can head west from the Robin Hood /Swinton junction ? At the moment all of this traffic goes through Whitefield and it’s ridiculous.
By Paul Rohan
This money would be better spent developing brownfield sites FIRST . Destroying our green belt shouldn’t be an option . I strongly oppose this development
By Jane Wagner
LEAVE OUR GREENSPACE ALONE …BUILD ON BROWN SITES!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!
USE BROWNFIELD ST
By Anonymous
Build houses. Build hundreds of thousands of houses (not apartments for the wealthy) for those living community-financed in hotels and for those living under the threat of eviction and for those who need to move closer to family and work or stay in their place of birth. Build more houses for families. Build them everywhere!
By James Yate
There’s been far too much delay already. Let’s get on with it.
We need houses of all types in the right locations, not all brownfield land can fulfil this need.
I think the proposals sound great. I live next to this allocation and frequently walk along the canal and reservoir so I get what is at stake, however I’m a realist and understand we desperately need investment.
By Anonymous
No recognition in the comments that PfE releases a tiny fraction of GM greenbelt, each borough contributes something, nearly all the greenbelt sites are near transit, and Manchester/Salford continue to pile up density on brownfield in ways that take volume pressure off the outer boroughs. A bit like the comments on Hollingworth Lake, which kind of boils down to ‘I really like the idea of living in a place that’s connected by multi-million pound government subsidised transit infrastructure to high value employment in Manchester, but doesnt take any more housing’
By Rich X
James – how do you plan to make houses affordable for everyone if you’re not also building apartments?
By Anonymous
3,500 houses = 5000 or 6000 cars. Our infrastructure doesn’t cope now with current volumes. Leave our greenbelt alone.
By Mark Haines
Exhaust all brownfield options before moving on to greenfield. Improve infrastructure before doing anything.
By Anonymous
Looks impressive, just what Bury needs.
By Anonymous