Trafford nudges Lacy Street plans forward
The local council is seeking feedback from residents on proposals for 53 homes on the site of the former Royal Mail sorting office, five years after the building was demolished to pave the way for development.
The Pozzoni-designed development comprises six two-bedroom apartments, 10 two-bed houses, 25, three-bed houses, and 12 with four-bedrooms
A quarter of the homes on the 2.3-acre site opposite Stretford Mall would be affordable, according to the council.
Cllr Liz Patel, Trafford Council’s Executive Member for Economy and Regeneration, said: “The Council’s priorities include providing homes for all and addressing climate change, and this development will be a benefit to both aims. We want as many people as possible to find out more and tell us what they think.”
Avison Young is advising on planning. Urban Green is providing expertise on landscape, ecology, trees, and BNG.
The council acquired the site in 2019 and it forms part of a wider 27-acre masterplan for Stretford that also includes the mall, which the authority is redeveloping in partnership with Bruntwood.
Fronting the Bridgewater Canal and located on the corner of Chester Road and Edge Lane in Stretford, the Lacy Street site has been vacant since 2018 when the Royal Mail relocated its operations to Old Trafford.
Bring back the exciting 2020 “Lacy Street Waterfront” please!
https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/stretford-jvs-options-for-revitalising-area/ I had such high hopes for this plot linking the Bridgewater to Stretford.
By Matt Pickering
Are Trafford Council going to develop and build these as implied or just get planning and sell on the site. If they are building them why aren’t they all affordable;if they are selling the site on why are they designing houses.
By Anonymous
I live on lacy street. The royal mail site can only fit 4 houses tops the old probation centre 4 houses tops and the carpark that your planning to put all those other houses are fully daily. We’ve had residents die before ambulances can attend the residents because of traffic build up. The crime and poverty on this estate is at an all time high without adding another 2 thousand people atleast. Nobody with council swap or buy down here. You promised a park and dumped more hungry mouths
By Grace mccullough
Why five long years ?
By Tannoy
Bit uninspiring this, compared to across the canal
By Dan
What a waste of a prime site, located close to the Metrolink and Town Centre. This site needs height and a density that its location deserves. So much more could be done with its interface with the canal path. Missed opportunity if this goes ahead.
By Love Pozzoni Hate This
Is this another case of Trafford Council’s out of touch planning department forcing down densities despite the fact we have a housing crisis?
Burnham seriously needs to bring this Borough into line. Perhaps certain councils should lose control of planning if they’re found to be consistently betraying their residents by forcing low housing delivery.
By Anonymous
Agree with LPHT – should be a much denser scheme so close to shops shops, services and public transport networks.
By YIMBY
A good example of the backwards situation we’re in. These blocks should all be the size of what’s over the canal, and the tiny plot over the canal would have been much better for houses.
By Anonymous
Such a missed opportunity. Needs greater density and more utility – what is that space for and who is it meant to serve?
By Mike from Stretford
The area of the old Royal Mail site seems very small indeed for 53 dwellings. Are any surrounding areas earmarked for this development. Also is there any element of high-rise
By Paul Owen
This is the wrong scale and typology for this prime town centre site. It needs an apartment-led scheme, that accommodates ground floor active use and amenity on the canal. Family homes (??!!) on an incredible busy junction, ‘island’ site, where there are no direct services, the primary schools are at capacity, the secondary provision is inequitable, who are these being marketed to?
This site could easily accommodate a 6/8/10 storey, European apartment scale that provides, dual frontage to the road, accommodates the level change, whilst creating a unique canal-side amenity/F&B/leisure active use.
By Rachel