Salford social homes approved
A vehicle headed up by directors at Northern Irish developer Lagan has been given permission to overhaul the site of the derelict Pendleton House, delivering 88 apartments.
Pendleton House Limited lodged a planning application to demolish most of the derelict building while retaining the façade earlier this year.
The scheme was recommended for approval when Salford City Council’s planning committee met today and was subsequently given the green light.
Located on the corner of Broad Street and Broughton Road, the building has been used as a dole office, coroners court, and council offices. It has been empty since 2011.
Designed by Todd Architects, Lagan’s scheme would comprise a mix of one- and two-bedroom flats on the site of Pendleton House and the former car park next door.
Registered provider ForHousing is lined up to acquire the scheme and has been awarded a £1.7m GMCA brownfield grant to support the project.
Axis Planning, Echo Acoustics, Redmore Environmental, CBO Transport, Carina Smolka, and MCR Engineering Consulting are advising on the scheme.
To learn more, search for reference number PA/2023/0532 on Salford City Council’s planning portal.
Proposals for the site’s redevelopment have been submitted before. In 2016, Salford approved plans for a 71-home project but the scheme never progressed.
The city is already dominated by social homes, it’s unsustainable
By Anonymous
Nice enough and retains the existing.
It’s crazy when you look at the old buildings that have been demolished over the years though. Greater Manchester was a real gem.
By Anonymous
The scale of the new looks overbearing and out of proportion – the lower ground floor sat steeping below the pavement level – a Salford Planning blunder or a necessary evil to get this site active?
By Anonymous
It’s funny that when it’s an office, we have too much office space, when they’re apartments, we have too many apartments. Now it’s social housing, funnily enough the commentary is we have too much of that too..
By Anonymous
Anon 3.05pm… 25.4% of Salford homes are socially rented which actually fell from 28.8% in 2011 showing an ongoing shift towards private renting. Expect in the next 5-10 years 25.4% will end up at 20% level for Salford. The dominant tenure at 47% continues to be home ownership.
By Data
Hideous design, good cause.
By Heritage Action