These are all the significant developments tabled with councils across the city-region recently
Manchester skyline (Image: Sean Hansford | Manchester Evening News)
A retail park in Salford that could become home to massive new neighbourhood is the biggest plan tabled with councils across Greater Manchester this week.
Riverside Retail Park – home to McDonald’s, KFC, and a Grosvenor Casino – could soon be transformed into new housing. The site, just off Ordsall Lane, could see 808 apartments spread across three new buildings, if plans are approved.
On the other side of the city-region, plans for a new special school are taking shape. In the unexpected location of a retail park in Middleton, Meadows School wants to build a temporary base.
The building on Shakehill Industrial Estate would become their new home for the next 15 years.
Here is a breakdown of each borough’s submitted planning applications this week
Bury
The former New Jerusalem church in Radcliffe
Plans to convert former church within a graveyard into offices
A disused church building could be converted into offices. Plans have been submitted to change the use of the former New Jerusalem Church, Stand Lane, Radcliffe.
A church and adjoining graveyard has stood on the site for centuries and the current building was constructed in the 1970s.
A planning statement in support of the plans has been submitted by Cockwill & Co Ltd on behalf of the applicant, Hotspot Heating Ltd.
Rochdale
Link House, Finlan Road, Middleton(Image: Google Maps)
New special needs school could be built on industrial estate in Greater Manchester town
A new temporary special needs school could be built on an industrial estate in Middleton.
Meadows School says their current site in Rochdale, which caters for young people with educational, social, emotional, behavioural difficulties, is no longer fit for purpose. The Egerton House building, off Wardle Road, is too small and lacks outdoor space, according to the independent school.
The new school would be created in Link House, off Finlan Road in the Shakehill Industrial Estate. The empty building was vacated 18-months-ago by technology company MID Digital Solutions.
Salford
A CGI of plans to build new homes, shops, and community spaces at Salford’s Riverside Retail Park. Image from Font Comms. Uploaded by local democracy reporter Declan Carey.
Retail park could be demolished and turned into neighbourhood with hundreds of homes
A Salford retail park with McDonald’s, KFC, and a Grosvenor Casino could be demolished to make way for a ‘vibrant’ waterfront neighbourhood with hundreds of new homes.
The businesses are based at the Riverside Retail Park by Regent Road and Ordsall Lane, which has been picked as the centre of a huge regeneration project.
Plans for the site by Imco Holdings Ltd and Forshaw Group include building a total of 808 apartments spread across three new buildings, with one, two and three bedroom properties.
Tameside
CGI of how Hollinwood Canal Park could look(Image: Tameside Council)
The plan that could change the face of one Greater Manchester town
A new park that connects a transformed Droylsden town centre to its marina has been touted in an ambitious plan for the area.
The Tameside town has disconnected neighbourhoods, underutilised spaces, poor quality public realms and no clear gateways, according to the local authority. Now the council has put together the Droylsden Masterplan, which aims to rectify those issues holding the town back.
With key infrastructure such as Metrolink already running through the heart of the town, there is belief it can undergo ‘transformational change’ and become a go-to spot for locals.
Wigan
Wigan town centre CGI
The ‘ambitious’ plans for the future of Greater Manchester borough
People in Wigan are being urged to have their say on the town’s blueprint for housing development, jobs, transport and welfare for the next 15 years.
Town hall bosses are inviting feedback on the the draft Local Plan, which has set a target for the delivery of 16,527 new homes in ‘the right locations’ by 2039, with the ‘right amount of affordable housing’ and ‘balancing’ the interests of neighbouring residents with the provision of houses of multiple occupation (HMOs).
It means an average of 972 homes a year would be built across the borough.
Other objectives include ‘raising the economic profile’ of the borough with new high-quality employment sites in the M6, the A580 (East Lancs Road) and the Wigan-Bolton growth corridors.