Salford waves through 400 Peel homes

367 letters against, 160+ people against at the meeting all rode roughshod and ignored. Welcome to Salford council ..let’s pretend this has any ‘affordable’ housing (that means 15% discount btw) and all of the traffic and ecological issues arn’t actually real. Let’s just take the money. Chat moss next…incoming concrete!

An ‘enhanced space’ ! These people are like consultants. They take your watch tell you the time then sell it back to you. We had an ‘enhanced’ space it was called countryside..one of the few bits Peel weren’t trying to build on.

Just waiting for the spectacularly sour NIMBY comments to hit this thread.

Is there not a listed building on this land?

Waved through as if the constituents views didn’t exist. Welcome to Labour always fighting for the little man over the big corporations…not.

Just waiting for those who don’t live near the area or understand the issues to start moaning about NIMBYs in the comments . 🙄

It’s the conservatives who are anti development, Labour are pro-development, the clue is in the name

Surely not what the market wants or needs from a prospective young buyers view surely smaller starter homes on the still available brown field sites that pepper the city .These are the cow fields just up against the diminishing Worsley woods once its gone its gone and where are the services on the worsley swinton wardley border to appear from.Short sighted idiocy as per usual from Salford council just look around salford planners and suggest other areas scrubland between wardley and walkden for instance or lower clifton bordering agecroft or any of the ugly gaps left by the Langworthy regeneration programme

Another well thought out project.

I totally agree with the comment about “enhanced” space being countryside. The damage that will be caused to our countryside and ability to actually move along the already congested roads are just two of the ongoing objections that Salford Council and Peel have ignored.

So sad to see even more green space being lost, the local wildlife will be left with nothing. And how on earth will the traffic move, its already grid locked each day 😢

If the above pictures are anything to go by these houses look awful and instead of enhanced spaces give me green fields every time.its about time we rethink our ideas about homes, brownfield sites should be built on first, no greenbelt until all brown field is used up, not everyone wants a house with a garden we should be regenerating our town centres by converting all the empty shops, pubs, upper floors over shops, empty banks properties that are not being used, this would help to regenerate our town centres and provide homes for people who don’t want a house with a garden, a starter home. In the area I live a Mill has been converted into apartments it looks brilliant and will probably still be standing when all these are falling down. There’s some fabulous buildings in our towns give them a new lease of life.

How many farms do we have to lose before we we realise, that we have nowhere left to grow this countries own food requirements.

Whilst homes are indeed required building more in Worsley without attention being given to road infrastructure will only increase the existing traffic turmoil that exists around Leigh Road, Worsley Brie and all others accessing J13 of the M60

Looking at the comments on here many don’t realise this site was allocated for development following years of consultation, there’s no roughshod or ignored just the same old rhetoric to a decision made that goes against certain opinions. People say brownfield first although don’t seem to recognise the complexity, cost and viability together with timing and assembly associated with those sites, plus the real need for family housing now not just apartments (or coversions that will never be as energy efficient, designed for purpose or as easliy maintainable as a new home).

more decisions taken against the public interest by council officials who seem to have forgotten who they work for.

400 homes and 1 primary school? It going to need to be a big one, and a secondary school also needed. Someone’s not very good at maths….

I the NIMBY lot complaining all have homes?
I guess their houses grew there too?
No, they were built on green belt, like every other house! There’s was nature there before you and your home.

This piece of land has been earmarked for development for years. In addition we have a housing crisis so the council made the right decision. Get these much needed housing built.

The site is close to a busy motorway so it’s going to be subject to some noise.
It needs an exit onto the East Lancs Road.
Currently, all outward traffic in the morning will be onto Hazelhurst Road. It’s going to be congested. Maybe that’s why Peel stressed the benefits of walking and public transport….could be the only way to leave in the morning 🤣

….forgot the small entry/exit to the East Lancs Road from Richmond Drive if connected to the new estate. Doesn’t seem adequate, however

Why build in Salford at all?
The population per square mile is already seven times higher than England’s national average.
There is already flooding in Roe Green which is lower on the water table.
Where is the water going when the concrete jungle is built?
This question was asked at the planning meeting answer it’s down to United Utilities well they can’t manage now and neither can the drains.
Salford is a concrete jungle green space needs preservation not destruction