SALFORD WEST COMMUNITIES

AERIAL IMAGE OF BURGESS FARM AREA

Walkden

Providing a total of 350 homes with housing developers Redrow and Bloor Homes at land off Hilton Lane. Nature park improvements have been provided at the site with improved recreation routes for residents providing access to nature and associated heath and wellbeing benefits.

BURGESS FARM 

Illustration of proposed site at Hazelhurst

Worsley

Proposals for a community of high quality in a highly accessible location to the east of the M60 and south of the A580 East Lancashire Road. It will combine family and affordable homes alongside green infrastructure and open spaces. 

HAZELHURST

Benefits

  • Provision of much needed family homes including affordable.

  • Contributions to education facilities and a potential site for a new primary school

  • Contributions towards the delivery of expanded health facilities

  • £61.8m investment in construction

  • £36.9m total GVA economic output

  • 65 jobs supported in retail and leisure annually

  • £4.9m uplift in annual retail expenditure

  • £1.3m addition New Homes Bonus revenue for Salford City Council

  • Within 2km of 14 schools

Sustainability

  • Genuinely sustainable development within an urban setting set in a Green Infrastructure setting 

  • New recreational spaces, including a green infrastructure network with a landscape buffer to the A580 and enhancement of Hazelhurst Fold recreation ground 

  • Enhanced footpaths and cycleways 

  • Enhanced links to the Leigh –Salford-Manchester Guided Busway 

  • New tree planting, ecological habitats, SuDs and water bodies  

  • Exploring renewable energy generation and sustainable construction to minimise carbon impact

CGI of east boothstown

Worsley

EAST BOOTHSTOWN 

Proposals for a new community of the highest quality adjacent to RHS Garden Bridgewater. It can deliver around 300 high specification homes as part of a low-density development with a truly landscape led approach to development and an attractive green setting with a significant amount of new open spaces, alongside a shared access with RHS Garden Bridgewater.

Benefits

  • Provision of much needed family homes including affordable

  • Contributions to new school places

  • Contributions towards expanded health services

  • Enhancement of the playing field off Quayside close

  • £41.2m estimated investment in the construction of the proposed development

  • £24.6m total GVA economic output over the construction period

  • £.3.3m uplift in annual retail expenditure

  • 45 jobs supported in retail and leisure businesses annually

  • £610,000 additional Council Tax revenue per annum for Salford City Council

Sustainability

  • A network of green infrastructure, children’s play pace and sports facilities which provide opportunities for exercise and leisure

  • Retention of valued habitats and enhancement of biodiversity resources, including new wetlands and hedgerow/tree planting

  • Exploring renewable energy generation and sustainable construction to minimise carbon impact

  • Maintain and enhance the network of footpaths and cycle routes, including connections to the Bridgewater Canal towpath and the nearby Bridgewater Marina, which provides links to Worsley and to the east and Leigh town centre to the west and the adjacent RHS site