Trafford looks to ramp up 2,800-acre New Carrington regen
A consultant is being sought to devise a delivery strategy for the redevelopment of the site, which is allocated for 5,000 homes and 4m sq ft of industrial in the soon-to-be-adopted Places for Everyone joint plan.
New Carrington, which spans 2,800 acres in the west of Trafford is earmarked for 5,000 homes and almost 4m sq ft of employment and industrial space during the PfE plan period, is among the largest single allocations in spatial plan.
The delivery strategy Trafford is commissioning would be the first part of a masterplan for the area, required to guide its redevelopment.
The New Carrington Masterplan will provide a “clear planning framework to enable the sustainable, phased delivery of the New Carrington allocation and its associated infrastructure, enabling high-quality placemaking through the provision of clear and unambiguous planning and delivery guidance”, according to tender documents for the delivery strategy opportunity.
A spokesperson for Trafford Council said: “Trafford Council is planning to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced consultancy to help us draw up the first part of the New Carrington Masterplan – ‘the Delivery Strategy’; which is a specific requirement of the Places for Everyone plan. We need to ensure that the development is delivered in a coordinated and comprehensive manner and will seek to appoint a consultant(s) with the specialist skills required to help us do so.
“New Carrington has been a strategic priority for investment and development for a number of years now and we have the opportunity through Places for Everyone to start to address some of the existing issues experienced by local communities and residents as well as deliver a very significant amount of new homes and employment opportunities for future generations.”
Some development activity has already come forward within the New Carrington area, which encompasses the 1,665-acre former Shell petrochemical works.
Wain Estates already has consent for Carrington Village, which is to feature more than 600,000 sq ft of employment space and 320 homes, while Carrington Gateway, a 212,000 sq ft industrial scheme, completed in 2020.
Peel NRE has applied for permission to redevelop a 26-acre former landfill site in Carrington by building 200,000 sq ft of industrial space on the site, known as Peaksnook and located west of Carrington next to the Manchester Ship Canal.
South-west of the proposed Peel NRE development is Voltage Park, a planned 670,000 sq ft industrial development off Common Lane from BlackRock UK Property Fund and PLP.
Plans for the 450,000 sq ft second phase of Voltage Park were revealed by Place North West last week.
Never understood Trafford Council’s obsession with Carrington. It’s in the middle of nowhere with precisely zero public transport connections. Creating a new entire car-dependent suburb in the year 2023 smacks of a planning department stuck in the 1950s.
By Anonymous
In places that do have public transport links most people will drive everywhere, it doesn’t make any difference, look at Chorlton, Altrincham, Sale, everybody there drives every day.
By Gilly
Surely the Sale western by-pass must be first on the list. Then a total revamp of many roads in Trafford, otherwise all will grind to a halt.
By Sale resident
New housing required…yes, absolutely.
New housing with virtually no public transport links…no.
5000 new homes roughly equates to probably at least 7,000 cars. Urmston, Sale and Flixton will be choked.
By FR
Gilly, you really need to stop making sweeping statements and start researching your points more. 30% of Chorlton households do not own a car according to the 2021 Census
By Anonymous
Anon @ 9.18am, That’s nothing to do with the tram network
By Gilly
Transport links will follow. They have to.
By Anonymous
How many households in Hale have a car?
By Josh Burns
V much welcome the housing BUT Carrington area is serviced predominately by a road already subject to horrendous amounts of heavy goods traffic, congestion & road works throughout the day so I can’t envisage this working & feel this could result in many accidents on a road already being stretched to its capacity especially when there are accidents on surrounding motorways.
By Anonymous
Cart before the horse strategy. If your going to allocate such a large site do you not sort out how it will be delivered before you allocate. Also will this work and the Masterplan be paid for by landowners and developers rather than Trafford Council. Transport is an issue and I feel sorry for those in Carrington and Partington who currently have one of the poorest highway connections eastwards into Sale and Altrincham and poor public transport. The old Cheshire Lines rail line between Irlam and Altrincham ideally needs reopening as a tram line if this many homes are proposed.
By Trafford resident
Councils first priority is how much council tax they can pull in. I don’t know the rates for Trafford but it’s a big number when multiplied by 5000.
No doubt more income from the industrial development as well.
Ten thousand cars, vans, hgvs !
Hospital, schools,GP surgery, dentists, opticians ?
By Peter Chapman
We’ll see more of these car dependent development if Labour win the UK general election and pursue “garden cities” in the middle of nowhere, instead of re-using well connected but brownfield land and edge of suburb extensions.
By CarCritic
As a matter of interest what is the ground like that was occupied by Shell petrochemicals?
By Peter Chapman
I was always lead to believe that the land shell and BP occupied was contaminated.
By Anonymous
I can understand the desire to build more housing, but it should be confined to the existing brownfield sites around Carrington. Same goes for warehousing, why on earth destroy valuable agricultural land for yet more warehouses? Where is all the water run off going to go that currently soaks into the farmland? There’s a reason it’s called Carrington Moss! Building on it is going to affect areas downstream towards Warrington because what was once a grouse moor currently soaks up rainfall and areas of it flood at times. Once built on, that water can only run into the River Mersey and the ship canal, so residents near those waterways near Warrington should be worried too. As for transport, 7000 to 10000 extra vehicles a day on roads that can’t cope now is simply not going to work.
By John H
Gilly’s comment just shows had narrow minded a person’s mindset can be. Chorlton in particular has one of the lowest car ownership rates in the region and says a lot about most of the other comments he posts on this website.
By Anonymous
Nothing new here, we have been waiting two or more years for the development to commence beyond some industrial units and a handful of houses. We have lost several local businesses including a very busy local garage that was moved on twice to clear development space yet nothing has yet been built on either site. A local amenity lost for ever.
Regardless of the housing issues the infrastructure is not being upgraded to cope with the proposed increase in traffic, both private and commercial, the village and Partington will soon be gridlocked. The slightest problem, such as road works and the whole are grinds to a halt.
Either get on with the estate or ideally improve the residential access roads.
I hope I live long enough to see some real improvement.
By Les Baker
Here’s a suggestion to everyone saying we shouldn’t build homes as there are no transport links… build some transport links, Madness I know! I’ll be fuming if 5,000 new family homes don’t get built because some people are worried about more cars. People in the suburbs drive, there’s nothing wrong with that! Would you rather less people have a roof there head instead of a few more cars?
By MC
My biggest problem with it is, Not one of them 5,000 house’s are social housing. So if you can’t afford to buy…. tough. On top of that they will be destroying valuable wetlands and animal sanctuarys at the same time. We have a number of red listed birds and wildlife habitats and if they get destroyed then they will die out forever. Mossland cleans pollution from the air destroying it will release year’s of pollution back into the atmosphere. It needs to be STOPPED NOW
By FED UP WITH IT ALL.
As a Carrington resident, I honestly can’t believe how long this ‘New Carrington’ has been going on for. The whole transport structure needs improvement before anything else is built. The amount of traffic that passes through our small village is getting out of control. Lorries hurtle through at speed with no consideration to local residents. My own daughter had to run across the road while the green man was on because an approaching lorry didn’t stop! Is it going to take a serious accident to happen before something is done. Carrington is a semi-rural village with a lovely community, we don’t want it being ruined by a load of ugly warehouses and more lorries polluting our air just so the council can line it’s pockets. We’re not and do not want to be an Industrial Estate!!
The village needs amenities first and foremost, shops, a doctor and dentist, a school for all the children in the village because as someone who works in a school, everywhere is full!! Once you have these in place then expand the community. Otherwise you will break the village and the surrounding areas.
By Amanda Fouracre
Are the houses that are being built council or private
By Karen Evans