Summer start for £69m Old Adelphi in Salford

Fresh from receiving affirmative votes at the city council’s planning committee, ECF is ready for work to begin on building 263 homes – including 112 affordable, Passivhaus apartments – off Peru Street.

Old Adelphi is the latest part of the 800-home Adelphi Village development from Salford City Council, University of Salford, and ECF, a joint venture between Muse, Homes England, and Legal & General. Adelphi Village is itself part of the wider £2.5bn Crescent Salford masterplan, which covers 240 acres and is set to deliver 3,000 homes.

Old Adelphi focuses on a three-acre plot of land that formerly held the Stirling Prize-winning Centenary Building and the listed Adelphi Building.

Designed by Buttress Architects, Old Adelphi was listed as having a total cost of £69.4m in an independent viability study from Capita Property & Investment.

Old Adelphi will have three five-to-six-storey buildings housing a series of apartments. Two of the blocks will hold 151 market home between them, with the third hosting the 112 affordable flats.

The affordable residences will be of similar ilk to those ECF is delivering at the nearby Willohaus, which is also part of Adelphi Village. Willohaus is due to complete this summer, around the same time that work is set to begin on construction Old Adelphi.

In addition to Buttress, the project team for Old Adelphi includes CBRE, Re-form, Hydrock, Clancy, Tyler Grange, Hannan, Stephen Levrant Heritage Architecture, Virtual Planit, AEC, Max Fordham, Hollis, Graphite Security, Civic Heritage, RMS, and Social Value Portal.

You can learn more about the project by searching reference PA/2025/1422 on Salford City Council’s planning portal.

Reflecting on the positive votes from yesterday’s planning committee meeting, ECF senior development manager Steve Thomas said: “With Willohaus set to complete this summer and work beginning on Farmer Norton, approval for the next stage of homes in Adelphi Village is a positive step as momentum builds across the Crescent Salford masterplan.

“These apartments, and the wider Adelphi Village, will not just deliver much-needed, high-quality homes but also create a new, sustainable, inclusive neighbourhood for the people of Salford.”

As for the next steps of Adelphi Village, the development has secured £23.4m from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s Good Growth Fund to deliver 301 homes for social and affordable rent.