HUGE PLAN FOR PENDLETON REGENERATION TABLED WITH 500 HOMES IN THE OFFING

Detailed plans for a huge development of nearly 500 homes as part of the Pendleton Regeneration Area in Salford have been tabled.

The proposals include the re-landscaping of Clarendon Park to include play areas and skate park as well as public open space and allotments on a 35-acre site on land south of Churchill Way and north of Liverpool Street.

They have been submitted on behalf of Lovell Partnerships and Together Housing Group, which have described Pendleton as a ‘pivotal location’ in central Salford, close to Salford Quays, MediaCityUK, Salford University Campus and Chapel Street.

The plan is described as ‘a diverse mix of apartments and houses to create a balanced new neighbourhood’ totalling 485 homes.

This includes nine blocks three and four-storeys high and two, three and four-bed properties which will be terraced and semi-detached along key routes overlooking public open space. 

Houses will comprise red brick, to reflect the character of recently development in Salford and the city’s ‘historic townscape character’.

Currently the site is ‘vacant urban land’ and comprises a network of ‘poorly maintained roads and footpaths’, according to a design and access statement submitted to Salford city council’s planning portal.

The land east of Clarendon Park was once where the former Windsor High School stood. That land is now ‘urban green space’ with trees and scrub.

But the park will create a ‘series of tranquill spaces’ incorporating trees, wildflower grassland and seasonal bulb planting to attract pollinator species, and play areas for different age groups and abilities.

There will be traditional orchards to offer a ‘doorstep edible landscape’, and a cycle route.