Salford selects Countryside for £60m Ordsall housing project
The city council has picked the firm as its preferred contractor for a 274-home scheme, which will see 10 acres off Robert Hall Street and West Park Street redeveloped.
Countryside Properties, part of Vistry Group, will sign a preconstruction services agreement to further develop the £60m project, according to a report to Salford’s procurement board.
Salford City Council lodged plans for the scheme late last year. To learn more about the project, search for application reference number PA/2023/0425 on Salford City Council’s planning portal.
The scheme would see the two sites redeveloped into 137 houses and 137 apartments, under plans drawn up by the city council.
Designed by Buttress Architects, the Ordsall project would feature a mix of two-, to four-bedroom homes in buildings up to five storeys.
Around 40% of the homes would be affordable and managed by Derive, Salford City Council’s housing company.
The plots have long been earmarked by the city council for redevelopment into housing and were previously marketed for sale alongside two smaller ones fronting Ordsall Lane.
However, in early 2021, the authority opted not to accept any of the six bids it had received for the land, opting instead to go down the self-build route.
Identity Consult is providing planning and project management expertise. The LK Group is undertaking ground investigations.
Countryside and Salford City Council were contacted for comment.
so depressing long term gentrification of a wonderful area, to make it a group of soulless boxes without a community, really despicable
By Toby
2024 already looks promising for this area of Salford / west Manchester between the Ordsall news and Pendleton news! Fantastic!
By Gentrify Salford
I have lived near these sites for over 20 years and welcome the development. But there has to be alongside this , redevelopment of the infrastructure. Robert Hall St is already a rat run. Also, making sure there is rewilding as there are many trees that could be cut down..also desperately needed is a shop like Aldi or Lidle and dare we request a cafe?
By Christopher
Salford should not be gentrified.. it is losing it is soul for few pennies
By Gentrify Salford is Wrong
“Gentrification” – spare us. These two sites are both derelict and have been for decades. This proposal will provide desperately-needed new homes in one of GM’s most exciting neighbourhoods – walking distance to the city centre. It’ll be a long long time before Ordsall needs to be worried about “gentrification”.
By Anonymous
@Gentrify Salford is Wrong – ‘it is losing its soul’, please can you explain to me what this actually means without coining another generic saying? You can gentrify and improve whilst retaining the existing good. Currently, there is more bad then good in Salford whether you want to come to terms with it or not.
By Gentrify Salford
It’ll help people get on the ladder but they’ll move as soon as they have kids
By DH
Gentrify Salford is spot on. Salford is lucky it is next to booming Manchester, otherwise it would look like Bolton.
By Elephant
You have to give em credit…some bloke made the same comment this morning…. Eeeh… The folk of Salford can’t afford …’ whatever development it is blah blah blah…’ and now they think gentrification is building new houses on an old car park😂. If these people didn’t exist Peter Kay would invent them.!
By Arkwright
the Council is building housing without a coherent plan for infrastructure or amenities, in the whole area there is not a good supermarket and place to gathering. Same can be said for all the new houses in Ordsall Lane
By Gentrify Salford is Wrong
There are 3 tram stops within walking distance, a whole multitude of main roads in & out of the City Centre, a park literally named ‘Ordsall Park’, and a whole Regent Retail Park yards away which houses a big Sainsburys amongst various other amenities (plans are also being developed here for the creation of a park on the northern side). Not to mention Salford Quays and Manchester City centre are within easy walking access to those who can. People with an agenda really do spout the most remarkable, ignorant twaddle!
By Gentrify Salford
Whilst gentrification has a number of big.shortcomings, this scheme is definitely not that.
In fact, it’s a very interesting proposal – townhouses with gardens for families along with apartments and 40% affordability. Kudos.
By Rye&Eggs
all the places you mentioned in your comment are not in Ordsall just to demonstrate the lack of knowledge in the area and Ordsall Park is one of worst maintained and grim places around Manchester. It is sad that people don’t see reality but it sad that people that don’t see the thing are believe in fairytales and will do nothing to improve life on local people
By Gentrify Salford is Wrong
This could be a good idea if it add a bit more of mixed development to the area instead of just build houses to make it nicer to live in it
By Luke
Lived here years an all the apartments an the cars parked all over cos there isn’t any where to park is making residents life a living hell and the fact there isn’t even a shops or even a good old chip n fish shop there is nothing left of ordsall anymore took the heart out of it bulid proper family homes an give us some shops an a chip shop
By Eva
The world is moving on, and Manchester moves rather faster than most but Pity some people will never see it but shout into their chip paper how it ‘were not like this when I were a ‘ …fill in the blank. No it wasn’t. And it will be different again and better long after they’ve gone. Wittering about gentrification shows the need to accelerate it and that’s exactly what’s happening. Bring it on!
By Anonymous
Build ,demolish, rebuild, demolish… I lived in Ordsall in West Park Street in the sixties before it was knocked down. The first and last mistake… because as I realised when returning to the area in the troubled nineties, you cannot remake what took years to organically create… A genuine viable community.
All that was left of the old place in the nineties was a few red bricks parallel with Regent Road a few families and old people who had been rehoused from the old “slums| into the new flats with pre-bulldozer memories.
The Docks and shipping had gone which was the neighbourhood’s main (but not only) raison d etre. What has followed since then has not been ideal but nothing can be. As far as I can see the attraction of Ordsall now is that it is close to town providing a cheaper alternative to Manchester City Centre prices albeit without the convenience of shops bars , clubs, pubs on the door step.
Ordsall had all that from the 1860s to the 1970s and at blue collar prices, it was dubbed the Barbary Coast not without reason over 200 licensed premises between Cross lane, Trafford Road, Regent Road and Ordsall Lane . Now it is an inner city dormitory town for Manchester,if you pardon the contradiction.
What else can it be? the area is not blessed with views or anything remaining of historical value or aesthetic beauty with the exception of Ordsall Hall and perhaps Saint Josephs RC church does it still stand? The river which borders on the East side is neither attractive or easily accessible most people would drive or walk past it on Ordsal Lane without even knowing it was there. The waterfront on the west side which is the old docks of the Ship Canal which the river feeds is more attractive but only by degree ultimately it is has all the charm of a Serbian shopping mall.
All chain eateries bars and pubs not one generic enterprise- you could be anywheresville UK.
So apart from the 100 or so families who are the original residents and have struggled though the last sixty years of change and re development what goes there now is academic and new and newer residents can make their choice and pay their money… or not.
By don draper
I think this is a missed opportunity for Salford to improve the neighbourhood
By Holly
I love that Ordsall it is finally slowly moving away from the negative stereotype to become a very cool place to live
By Paul