Salford finally ready to determine 30-storey Clippers Quay plan
CERT Property’s part-co-living part-BTR scheme at Salford Quays has been stuck in the planning system since December 2021. Almost four years on, the city council is expected to approve the project next week.
Salford City Council has recommended the 30-storey brick and glass tower for approval when its planning committee meets on 16 October.
CERT Property has been in an ongoing dialogue with the city’s planners for the last few years in a bid to convince them of the merits of the proposal and calm their nerves after the authority expressed nervousness about the co-living concept.
The sticking point for Salford, and many other local authorities across the country when it comes to co-living, is the size of the proposed units.
The co-living concept, by its very nature, calls for smaller unit sizes than a typical apartment scheme, offset by an increase in amenity space.
In response to the city council’s concerns, CERT significantly reworked its project in 2024.
The developer reduced the number of co-living units within scheme by 90, increasing the size of the remaining 171 in a bid to appease city council planners.
This decision, although impacting the scheme’s viability, seems to have worked and CERT goes into next week’s meeting with the backing of the planning department.
Subject to approval, the development would be retained and managed in-house by CERT.
OMI Architects is leading on design and Enabl is advising on planning.
To learn more about the scheme, search for reference number 21/79015/FUL on Salford City Council’s planning portal.
Shocking! IF they get planning (recommendation not a certainty) let’s hope it lapses. Cert do like to take their time (Polygon Street/Peelers yard) for example.
By Anonymous
Not exactly a looker. I bet they used that concert venue in Hamburg as inspiration, before ramping up the value engineering
By Anonymous
Greater Manchester should be doing better designs than this now.
By Anonymous
It’s likely the scheme is now unviable due to increased construction costs
By Fidel
People seem to think that planning authorities can turn down an application based solely on its looks……they cannot! They’d soon end up in court, one persons ugly is another persons beauty! There are far more serious reasons to turn down planning, they have guildlines, they tick them off, a building not being what’s considered a super skyscraper masterpiece isn’t one of them I’m afraid!
By Cristoforo
People saying this is the worst design in Greater Manchester when it isn’t even the worst design for Salford Quays 😀
By Anonymous
Woeful.
Another ugly looking tower to add to the current ugly looking towers around Salford Quays.
Sadly SCC will wave it through.
By jrb
Blimey. That’s angin.
By Anonymous
That is a very drab and uninspiring selection of buildings.
By Anonymous
It would be helpful if Salford City Council could make it clear that developers can build more or less whatever they want around the Quays and adjacent to central Manchester, at any density and generally without having to provide affordable housing, rather than claim to be big socialists agonising over things like co-living, minimum space standards and affordability but then just nodding everything through anyway, hoping to make something back from the extra Council Tax. This might save everyone time and money.
Good timing taking it to committee this month though, in the hope opposition from the neighbours it will loom over dies down well before the May local elections.
By Salf Loathing
Who’s said it’s the worst design in GM? There is worse in Salford Quays, most major cities and their waterfronts. Doesn’t make it ok.
By Anonymous
What is wrong with the editors of this site? Tell the truth, they’re bedsits. Stop using nonsense language to justify developers building slums.
By Anonymous
These shiny new flats look very pretty but youngsters struggle finding rents, they’re not cheap
By Bernard
As someone who lives in the local area, I BEG this gets rejected. It’ll cause so many issues both for us residents and the local wildlife
By Anonymous
We are already massively struggling with parking in the area, what is this project doing to avoid those issues? The (even uglier) new tall apartment buildings nearby have zero parking facilities- that was one of the reasons I didn’t buy there but it’s definitely making this issue bigger in the area.
By Alexandra
Complete eyesore! There is no need for additional residential developments in this area. Shame on Salford Council for considering to agree to it. There does not seem to be any consideration for the negative impact on the already strained infrastructure, particularly roads, parking and NHS provision in this area already. I am completely against this as a resident who already lives directly opposite where this is planned.
By Anonymous
Awful, completely out of place with the surrounding area
By Kate
I thought that Salford had a design panel? These would barely count as new housing.
By Anonymous
Not content with ruining the canal basin in town, another architurd by the waterfront. What a hideous mess!
By OMI-Oh dear
The existing infrastructure can’t cope. Have the planners ever visited Trafford Rd during rush hour or The Quays on a match day? Or the end of a theatre performance?
By Anonymous
Ashamed its a 30 storey! It looks ugly i also agree with the other comments,this should get a redesign and statement talls indeed no more 30 storeys lying around great manchester its too small and we expect 45 storeys or more now,salford quays is a golden destination with a wide irwell river going through,luxury towers we see in australia or toronto on waterfront is what we need.
By Giant skyscraper fan
Bu the looks of it it’s another jv in disguise it will never get built and sold to the highest bidder in no time.
By Anonymous
Manchester construction Is like wall street in September 1929… It’s pushing too far.. its close to the point where it’s becoming.. unpleasant.. not aspiring
By Anonymous
Terrible design like many of the buildings in Salford. This one harks back to the the 90s.
An eye-sore for generations to come if built.
By John