Fresh images of £35m Bolton town centre resi
Construction of Placefirst’s 167-apartment Deansgate Gardens is due to complete in summer 2025, a project that forms part of the council’s £1bn plan to transform the town centre.
Designed by Levitt Bernstein with CW Studio advising on landscape, the £35m build-to-rent scheme is located opposite Bolton’s former Beales department store.
Caddick Construction broke ground last March and Placefirst has released up-to-date CGIs of how the scheme will look once complete.
“These stunning new images of Deansgate Gardens offer a new look into our first contribution towards a bright and brilliant future for Bolton town centre,” said David Mawson, chief executive at Placefirst.
“We are immensely proud to be delivering such a transformative scheme, one which will deliver a community of much-needed new quality rental homes right in the heart of Bolton town centre.”
The project forms part of Bolton Council’s £1bn masterplan to transform the town centre, which includes plans for a revamped Le Mans Crescent, a redeveloped Crompton Place Shopping Centre, and more residential across various sites.
Bolton Council’s deputy leader Cllr Akhtar Zaman, said Placefirst’s project forms part of the authority’s mission to attract more people to live in the town centre.
“Building quality long-term rental properties like Deansgate Gardens will help us achieve this goal,” he said.
“The latest images show how impressive the finished development will be, complementing the many other projects which are transforming Bolton into and even better place to live, work and visit.”
Once complete, Placefirst will retain the scheme, remaining on-site to oversee the management and maintenance of the neighbourhood.
The name Deansgate Gardens takes inspiration from the area’s heritage and reputation as a major commercial, retail and social hub during the 19th century, Palcefirst said.
The developer consulted with Bolton Council and members of the public to receive input into the name during this summer’s Bolton Food and Drink Festival.
Levitt Bernstein is leading on design. Credit: via Coverdale Barclay
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This is how you do gentle density. Reasonably good grain. Contextual design. Mix of low apartments and townhouses with gardens for families.whats not to like?
By Rye&Eggs
This looks fantastic. Exactly what Bolton town centre needs. Good quality, high density, with increased residential in the town centre. More like this please.
By Anonymous
I am very much in seeing town centre improvement scheme but getting sick and tired of facilitating space for drivers.
Drivers abuse any space allocated for them driving any direction they wish to travel and the worst offender are food delivery drivers
By George
This is how the towns and smaller urbanised areas should be redeveloped (looking at you, Leigh..)
By Anonymous
There were some unforgiveable demolitions to facilitate this. It’s not a pretty scheme.
By Heritage Action
Be good if Bolton was on the metro line -which was supposed to connect the biggest greater Manchester towns to city centre. The fact that Bolton is up there in terms of actual volume of people. Yet Andy Burnham spends fortunes on extending Metro to the most affluent areas alot further from Manchester city centre than Bolton. Why has Bolton never been connected? The North West towns neglected again
Please answer Andy only asked about 75 times over 8 years
By Anonymous
I hope it works.
By Anonymous
Pity they don’t do anything for people living outside Bolton town centre,places like kearsley,Farnsworth,prestolee to name a few.
By Disgruntled
That’s another part of Bolton’s history thrown away into the rubbish pile. There’ll be no shops left in Bolton that will be accessible soon for the sake of housing.
By Anonymous
With the benefit of the all the trains from Bolton into Manchester those newbies to Bolton will have much faster commute into Manchester than those relying on the slow Metrolink from Manchester suburbs and they will get much better value for comparable apartments and houses and not to forget the superior schools than Manchester.amd more green spaces
By Lucy Smith
It explains years of boarded-up shops and a once beautiful town ruined. This was obviously the agenda.
Give it a couple of years where we’ll see litter everywhere and the usual disrespectful behaviour which we have come to expect in and around Bolton.
By Anonymous
Looks great, excellent way to get people in the town centre using shops, cafes, bars and the Octagon. Good start, I hope there is much more to come!
By Anonymous
Great looking brownfield development which will hopefully spearhead progress in Bolton!
By Anonymous
I think this is a positive step forward. As much as many would like Bolton town centre to be full of shops that simply isn’t the case anymore. With it’s close proximity to Manchester there is no reason why Bolton town centre can’t be an attractive place to live. More people = more successful businesses. The Council need to press ahead with schemes that improve the town and generate more money which can be used on projects outside the town centre.
By Anonymous
Bolton is a complete and utter dump beautiful old buildings with stunning architecture demolished to be replaced by soulless brown boxes destined to become nothing more than slum housing in a few years .
By Sarah
Bolton no longer a town centre totally destroyed by Bolton Council.
By Anonymous
Bolton does not have a Town Centre anymore, the council have allowed it to disintegrate and disappear basically killed it, it all started with car park charges and allowing Big shopping areas outside the Centre
By Colin Poole
Britain is the only country that allows its cities to fall into advanced decay.
By Tom
Those houses being built near the market look like prison cells
By Anonymous
Ruined fantastic shopping centre, not worth going to anymore. So full of life people shopping, before ruined.
By Old boltonian
Believe when I see it
By Kevin Nightingale-McGovern
how many times have we heard due to complete. look at great moor st. apartments partly built (old Gregory and Porrits land ) all weeds growing out of boards that’s round it.
Folds road have had boards up saying new shopping centre being built had that up for years nothing happened. Always say run out of money. They knock buildings down but never replace.
Bolton is a disgrace. Used to be proud for friends to visit but nothing to show them any more
By Anonymous
Its a bit uninspiring… and mainly social housing which Bolton town centre now has loads of.
By MJ
I don’t get this constant moaning about Bolton.Manchester before it’s regeneration was much more run down much more dangerous and nobody wanted to live in it’s centre.So if Manchester can be revived why not Bolton?.Bolton had the last Tory council in Greater Manchester and has two Consecutive members of parliament you don’t get that in a town that’s actually run down.
By Tracey Monroe
According to the picture the Preston’s of Bolton building has gone this is a travesty if that’s the case you are always making changes to Bolton town centre and not for the better or for the good of the people of Bolton, why don’t you ask the people of Bolton what they want and not how you can make money from developers, Bolton town centre has gone now and you won’t get it back in a hurry the council have killed Bolton due to bad management and GREED
By Anonymous
It’s not flats and houses that make a town centre . What about the shopping experience . Bury town centre beats Bolton by a mile . BOLTON TOWN is a disgrace ?
By Anonymous