Transformation of Salford’s Frederick Road advances
A pair of student accommodation schemes providing a total of 765 beds, as well as the English Cities Fund’s Salford Rise infrastructure project are all up for approval when the city council’s planning committee meets Thursday.
Salford Rise
The podium would by 50 metres wide and 90 metres long. Credit: via ECF
Developer: English Cities Fund
Design team: Make Architects and Planit IE
Planner: CBRE
Salford Rise is a near five-acre podium to be constructed over Frederick Road to unlock development potential within the £2.5bn Crescent masterplan.
The project will see an 11-metre-wide, 90-metre-long podium constructed. The scheme is aimed at removing a “significant barrier to movement” within the 250-acre masterplan area and turning the area into a 15-minute neighbourhood.
The infrastructure/public realm project will be funded by £13m received from the government’s Levelling Up Fund.
Cheltenham Place
Leach Rhodes Walker designed the scheme. Credit: via planning documents
Developer: X1
Architect: Leach Rhodes Walker
Planner: Zerum
The developer wants to build a 10-to-15-storey student accommodation block on the corner of Frederick Road and Cheltenham Street, close to Salford University.
X1 proposes creating 353 studio apartments on a site currently used as a car wash.
A report by Knight Frank looking into the need for student accommodation in Salford found that X1’s scheme would help to address a shortage of purpose-built accommodation for students, giving them an alternative to houses in multiple occupation.
There are currently four students per available purpose-built bed space in Salford, the report said.
The site falls just outside of the 250-acre Salford Crescent masterplan, being delivered by English Cities Fund in partnership with Salford City Council and Salford University.
The project team for X1’s Frederick House includes Savills as client advisor, Turley as heritage consultant, Tace as M&E engineer and DEP Landscape Architectural.
Clancy, BB7, Mosodi, RBA Acoustics and Penny Anderson Consulting are also advising X1 on the project.
Other X1 developments include the 191-apartment The Gateway on Trafford Road and Manchester Waters, comprising almost 750 flats across five buildings fronting the Manchester Ship Canal.
Stervon House
Plans for the scheme were first lodged in 2019. Credit: via planning documents
Developer: Team Quest International
Architect: AHR Architects
Planner: Lichfields
The developer proposes demolishing former industrial buildings close to the proposed Salford Rise and creating a part five-, part-six-storey student scheme.
Located at the junction of Broughton Road East, Seaford Road and Frederick Road, Team Quest International’s development would feature 148 cluster flats, providing a total of 412 beds.
Plans for the development were submitted to Salford City Council in November 2019.
On the neighbouring 5.3-acre former British Vita site, Kellen Homes and landowner Rock & Co are seeking consent to demolish the vacant factory buildings and construct 96 one- and two-bedroom apartments and 72 two- and three-bedroom houses.
Cheltenham Place – If nothing is done about JWS waste there, then the flats are going to have some awful recycling stench to deal with, especially on a hot day! Hope the planners are aware of this. It is borderline between industrial space a well.
Most of these are based on the need for industrial spaces to be demolished, but are these going to be replaced elsewhere? People need places to work and not everyone needs an office job. Industrial serves a purpose
By JB
I live close to JWS and on warmer days the flies that people get in their houses are unbelievable and as the other comment says, the smell is shocking.
By Ap
Maybe I’m just not getting this, or perhaps I’m missing something significant but…. I just don’t get it. How would a pretty foot bridge bring long term jobs and prosperity to the area? What are the current “barriers to movement”? traffic? I’m sure there are many other ways to circumvent traffic. I’m certainly not against the proposal in anyway, it looks brilliant. Maybe I need to see a map of the bigger picture to understand better? Also, what is a 15 minute neighbourhood?
By Bernard Fender
Why are we building flats when there is a need for shops, and homes for people, think students got enough places to live. And still need green areas like the park.
By Fed up salfordian