Peel tipped for Salford go-ahead
A 400-home neighbourhood at Hazelhurst Farm in Worsley, a site allocated in Greater Manchester’s Places for Everyone development plan, will go to committee for a decision next week.
Peel, working with Hope Architects and Turley, has submitted hybrid plans, with full consent sought for 155 homes in the south-west of the site, with new access from Cartmel Grove and Richmond Drive. It would include most of a proposed linear park and a play area, among other amenities.
Outline permission is requested for the remaining 245 homes, along with 37,660 sq ft of later living provision, the school, and the remaining elements of the scheme.
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Approval is recommended, officers stating that the scheme would make a significant contribution to local housing provision in a sustainable location.
Land at Hazelhurst Farm is one of Salford’s two strategic allocations within PfE. It sits to the south of the East Lancs Road.
If approved, Peel land said that the 59-acre development will provide 20% affordable housing on site, with funding for other homes across Salford equivalent to a further 30% of this site’s total. This commuted sum would amount to around £130,000 per affordable home.
Peel would also provide land and contributions for a new two-form entry primary school, include a village green with a children’s play area in the development and enhance local amenities.
New and improved pedestrian and cycle routes to encourage sustainable travel would also be included, along with better access to Wardley Woods and new green spaces for recreation wellbeing.
A spokesperson for Peel Land said, “We welcome the opportunity for Salford City Council to consider our proposals for Hazelhurst Farm next week. This project reflects years of collaboration with the Council and local community to shape a well-planned, sustainable neighbourhood that meets critical housing and education needs.
“Improved access to public transport will provide the current community and residents increased accessibility to a range of sustainable transport options that aligns with the Greater Manchester approach. If approved, this masterplan will deliver more than just new homes – it will create a thriving community for people at all stages of life.”
Not unusually, the project has not been universally welcomed. Salford’s officer report notes that 379 letters of objection have been received, mostly objecting to the loss of green space.
Salford City Council’s planning panel will review the plans at its meeting on Thursday 20 March. The plans can be seen on Salford’s planning portal with the reference 23/81719/HYBEIA.
If this is to be considered, Peel should be building the school and not providing the land and ‘contributions’. The area has a lack of school places and this should be made a condition of any proposed development.
By Anonymous
Peel’s comments on the application suggest that the new school is not required till 2048 and it will accommodate more children than just from this development. It would therefore be unreasonable and unlawful through planning to require Peel to build a school. Salford Council will have fully explored school requirements in dealing with the application.
By Informed planner
Why do you think it’s the responsibility of a housebuilder to build a school? The obligation to educate children lies with the local authority. We need more houses, housebuilders should focus on that without ridiculous conditions.
By Anonymous
Only red hot Labour Salford Council could plan 400 more houses in the middle of Worsley Woods which is an oasis of green paradise surrounded by the concrete mess that Salford has chosen to turn the rest of Salford into. Are the City Planners so blinded by the glint of money resulting from approving such massive housing development concreting over our green spaces that bring mental and physical well- being to all, that they haven’t seen the horrendous traffic disaster unfolding on Worsley with Worsley Rd traffic snaking immobile back to Swinton and Barton Rd queues snaking down to Monton in traffic gridlock. Meantime traffic hurtles down from Walkden through the useless traffic lights onto Worsley roundabout with frustrated, desperate motorists risk prangs, as they have to hurtle round it as if they were on Brands Hatch!!! Who in their right mind considers the situation on Worsley roundabout acceptable? Will we not even be able to get out of our drives with 800 extra cars ( 2 per house); at Hazelmere as well as the proposed inappropriate mass housing development proposed next to RHS Bridgewater, though under Salford Council’s Planning Officers, RHS is more giant car park and shop than RHS garden. What a fiasco everywhere you look in Salford, including the monstrous high rise blocks Salford have too close together looking into each other’s flats.
By Anonymous
The roads around the area particularly mornings and evenings are somewhat overloaded so capacity is a major issue. Early morning the queues to Worsley Green often reach as far as Hazelnuts Road. What further road capacity has been considered? I consider none. My nephew says from Keighley Road if he is not in the motorway before 7.30sm he could be held up until after 8.49am. what arrangements are proposed to deal with the traffic?
By Anonymous
There goes more green space , while all those brownfield sites in Salford re main vacant .
By Wislon
I cannot believe that Peel are yet again planning to build on one of the last few green spaces in the Worsley area. There is already too much traffic in the area with queues and standing cars contributing to pollution in the area. Even with new access roads the amount of the houses with one/two cars will add enormously to pollution in the area. Providing a primary school is not enough. What about secondary schools doctors etc. What about local wildlife. Salford Council and Peel seem determined to spoil the area which local people and visitors to the area have enjoyed for many years. Improved cycle lanes will only make the movement of traffic in the area worse.You should be
ashamed of yourselves as it’s all about profit. There are many grey/brown sites around Salford/Greater Manchester that could be used.
By Anonymous
The infrastructure cannot sustain more traffic .
No mention of a doctors .
Greenbelt land should be protected .
This area is already heavily populated.
What is affordable housing in Worsley?
This is purely for financial gain nothing more.
These houses will not be affordable to the average person
By Julie Coleman
The area is already gridlocked with traffic with all those extra houses it will become a standstill
By B Hughes
This genuinely won’t work. We live 0.6 miles from the nearest school which is Broadoak and our child could not get in due to over-subscription. Where will the kids go to school?
Hazelhurst road is also a car park in the mornings going on to East Lancs. This will cause traffic all the way down Hazelhurst up to Worsley Road. Terrible idea. A new link road will be needed from the estate on to East Lancs.
Also what about the will do to the value of the houses in the surrounding area. No doubt devalue them give the type of project.
Terrible of Salford Council all round. We may move away from the area if it goes ahead. Such a shame.
By Local
Why don’t council build homes for people on their housing list? It’s council houses not “affordable” houses we need. No doubt the schools, play areas etc in original plannings will just not happen. Again!
By T JAMES
No housing scheme without provision for affordable properties should be approved
By Bernard fender
More of our lovely greenery going, it’s disgraceful, people complain about foxes and other creatures coming into our rural areas because such as these developers are taking away their homes by building on it
By Barbara
Not in my backyard mister!!!
By Angry citizen
I would be interested
By Celestine
I want to object to this application in the strongest possible terms.Green spaces in the area are disappearing at an alarming rate and the roads have become a living nightmare.This application should be refused.
By Paul Witherington
Utterly appalling. Yet again destroying green spaces. How can you have the RHS which prides itself in promoting the very best of nature next to a building site. There are plenty of other brown sites which could be built on.
By Anonymous
All new house building projects like this should always incorporate green spaces and trees wherever possible. It’s so important now more than ever that as much planning should go into providing healthy green spaces including green car oarks as it is with the houses.
By Anonymous
We don’t want it. Worsley residents don’t want it. Already enough traffic and they’re destroying a beautiful site. Build in a place that isn’t stunning and isn’t going to wreck home values
By Kieran
Got enough house’s being built in and around Salford, the roads are gridlocked every day it’s got to stop , someone needs to stop peel there building 🏫 on every bit of grass they come across
By Anonymous
I’m often in favour of new developments but even in the whole Yimby/Nimby debate this one seems particularly ill conceived if you know anything about the area.
By Anonymous
Kieran, home values are not a material planning consideration. In any event, you will probably see the value of your home increase as a result of this development. Ours went up 58% in a few short years since a large development commenced near us. With it, brought investment to other facilities. Everyone moaned about traffic at the time. In reality, I never saw anymore than 2 cars waiting to exit the estate. Not everyone gets up and leaves at exactly the same time. Any way, we cashed in and moved with our windfall.
By Anonymous
“Why do you think it’s the responsibility of a housebuilder to build a school?”
Because schools are like doctors surgeries or shops or transport links or utilities, they’re forms of infrastructure and new housing can’t exist without it. Therefore it’s entirely reasonable for housing developers to contribute to that infrastructure which their development creates demand for and, in turn, helps create demand for their product.
By House builder welfare watch
‘Devaluing your property’ is not accepted as a reason for refusal guys
By bariwe
Disgraceful and fundamentally flawed proposal. The area can’t handle the additional traffic or additional school places that will be needed. It’s also destroying the green space we have in the area, which is why most people choose to live in Worsley in the first place. I strongly object to this development
By John
Who left the NIMBY tap on
By Anonymous
Ah, always one NIMBY caller in the comments. If you want to know who left the tap on please show your face at the meeting in Swinton town hall on the 20th when this is being discussed and like everyone you’ll get to put your point across. You’ll see exactly who left it on. Hope to see you there.
By John
John – if housing doesn’t get built here then it needs to get built somewhere else. There is a nation-wide housing crisis and younger generations haven’t got a hope in hell of ever owning a home. Now I’m only making an assumption, but I’d imagine most of the antis on here already own their own homes – “I’m alright Jack”. We all have a responsibility as a society to accept more homes in every one of our neighbourhoods. To deny this is to out oneself as a nasty and selfish individual.
By Anonymous
Build on every bit of land until there’s nothing left
By YIMBY
The whole of Salford just a housing estate
By Craig
Nobody on this thread seems to acknowledge that this site has emerged through both the democratic process in Salford and GM , but also the Planning Inspectorate, Judicial Review, and The Secretary of State. Just get over it, move on, this democracy, and it’s fair process.
By Rich X
Greedy Peel yet again and Salford council lets them get away with it. If they had their way, they would build on every green space in Worsley, which would become one big housing estate. There is no requirement to include “affordable homes” in the Worsley developments, so long as they commit to building a percentage elsewhere. I really question the thinking and ideology behind Salford council’s planning strategy. Use brownfield sites, use wasteland, reclaim empty industrial units for housing, not our beloved countryside and green spaces.
By Maggie Lunn