Transformation of long-vacant Salford site proposed
Pendleton House would be transformed to provide 88 apartments for social rent under plans submitted to the city council.
Pendleton House Limited, a vehicle headed up by directors at Northern Irish developer Lagan, has lodged a planning application to demolish most of the derelict building while retaining the façade.
Located on the corner of Broad Street and Broughton Road, the building has been used as a dole office, coroners court, and as council offices. It has been empty since 2011.
Designed by Todd Architects, Lagan’s scheme would comprise a mix of one- and two-bedroom flats on the site of Pendleton House and the former car park next door.
Registered provider ForHousing is lined up to acquire the scheme and has been awarded a £1.7m GMCA brownfield grant to support the project.
Axis Planning, Echo Acoustics, Redmore Environmental, CBO Transport, Carina Smolka, and MCR Engineering Consulting are advising on the scheme.
To learn more, search for reference number PA/2023/0532 on Salford City Council’s planning portal.
Proposals for the site’s redevelopment have been submitted before. In 2016, Salford approved plans for a 71-home project but the scheme never progressed.
The image at the top of the article suggests the flats on the top 2 floors are going to be for very skinny people only.
By the light of the moon
Hopefully this will help detract the eye from that absolutely god awful roof extension to the building behind it.
By Anonymous
Why must it be for social rent? Pendleton is a prime location to be regenerated for young professionals and the like. This should be private dwellings!
By Straight talker
what’s with these terrible roof extensions, is that hard to be more sympathetic to the original building?
By Jon P
@Straight talker – if it was for private sale this post would be filled with comments saying ‘Pendleton needs more social rent, not more homes for young professionals’…
By Salfordian
Sounds like a future management nightmare.
By Anonymous
@Salfordian – Agreed! And that is the problem. All it takes is a stroll around the area to realise the potential with the Uni & Hospital being on the door stop and the City Centre being a stones throw away. Once the City grows up Liverpool St & Chapel St, Pendleton would & should be a city suburb/neighbourhood.
By Straight talker
@Straight talker – I don’t think any of that is incompatible with an area having homes for social rent. A thriving city neighbourhood needs housing of all tenures.
By Salfordian
Why not social housing??? It’s in desperate need, and not just for people out of the workplace, but for those aspiring young ‘professionals’ as they start to build their careers.
With the cost of private rentals skyrocketing social housing will offer those working in the city earning upto the average annual salary a place to live close to their place of work.
There’s more than enough overly expensive private rental opportunities in the City Centre and the fringes of the Manchester/Salford border. There has to be a good mix of housing for all types of people with varying levels of income.
That’s assuming gentrification isn’t ones aim for Manchester and the surrounding areas.
By Anonymous
Hi Anonymous. As the article states. The flats will be available for social rent and will be managed by a housing association. Thanks, Dan
By Dan Whelan
The site isnt that big .There is a massive roundabout there with a ton of traffic so the pedestrian area can never look like that and where did the other buildings come from.
By Anonymous
Can you be keep disabled people in mind family’s r struggling with disabilities I’m going to keep up to date with your project hopefully it will be productive
By Brilliant I'm looking for a 3 bedroom bungalow
Straight talker, if you are a young professional or the like, take a look down Liverpool Street, Oldfield Road and Chapel Street, there is plenty of options there.
By Anonymous
Social housing is only available in Salford to people with a ‘local connection’ to the city.
‘Young Professionals’ working in Manchester would never qualify as eligible to live in this development.
There is a lot of wishful thinking around who should be able to live social housing.
By UnaPlanner