Royal London presses ahead with £750m Timperley Wedge plan
Branded as Davenport Green, the project could provide 2,500 homes and 645,000 sq ft of employment space across 558 acres south of Ridgeway Road in Trafford.
Royal London Asset Management, the principal landowner within the Timperley Wedge allocation, has launched a consultation on a draft masterplan for the area.
Have your say – davenportgreenconsultation.co.uk
As well as homes and employment space, the plans feature a rural park and £100m investment in infrastructure and facilities including enhanced primary education provision, a new local centre, and community play facilities.
There is also scope to deliver an extension to the Metrolink network and a solar farm. In total, Royal London predicts the scheme could drive £750m of investment into the area.
The site has been allocated for release from the Green Belt under the Places for Everyone spatial strategy, which caused some controversy locally. PfE was formally adopted in March.
Joe Kane, senior development manager at Royal London Asset Management Property, said the vision for the site would “much-needed new homes, create new jobs and drive significant investment”.
“It will open up green space so that it is accessible to everyone, helping to establish a place where people can live, work and play,” he said.
Kane added: “The proposals for Davenport Green will not only address the diverse housing needs in Trafford, including much-needed affordable housing provision but will also contribute to the strategic development of Trafford and Greater Manchester as a whole.”
Both Kane and Cllr Liz Patel, executive member for economy and regeneration at Trafford Council, implored local residents to get involved in the consultation.
“I would like to encourage residents to get involved with consultations around the Davenport Green Masterplan,” Patel said.
“These are significant housing and community infrastructure proposals in the Hale Barns and Timperley area that will be developed over many years ahead. These plans will see much-needed new and affordable homes being built alongside the transport, business and community facilities needed in support of that. It’s really important that our residents help shape these plans.”
The project team for the scheme includes Colliers, which is providing commercial and residential property, planning, and development advice, masterplanner Broadway Malyan, transport consultant Civic Engineers, Hydrock – providing advice on engineering, energy, and sustainability – and landscape and ecology consultant Tyler Grange.
The road system in Timperley needs improving, it is like a culture de sac at present. Park Road and Brooklands Road are the only way to get to Sale. We need a metro stop a lot closer to Timperley Village, there are train lines which could be utilised. I’m sorry they will be taking green belt land. It would take a lot of infrastructure planning to make this massive project work. I will take a lot of convincing that this project will enhance the area.
By Sue Richardson
It concerns me that there is not investment into Timperley and worst case building a new centre which will cause competition. Whilst Altrincham and Sale have had massive investment Timperley has not – a tram stop in the centre and investment in infrastructure, recreational areas and creating opportunities for new bars, restaurants, etc to open should be a priority.
By Mr Timperley
I’d like to understand the result on the roads with an extra 5000 cars added !! Your plans are flawed.
By Gordon Jones
Agree with others here. A development of this size in this already hugely congested area is going to cause some significant local issues. The planners need to reconsider connectivity (Metrolink, motorway connection) and the need to invest in improving other already congested arteries (Brooklands Rd, Stockport Rd, Washway Rd all come to mind). Furthermore I agree that Timperley itself has not had the investment which Sale or Altrincham have had in recent years. The village has a lot going for it, but rather than bring investment into the village this development risks taking jobs and revenue from the village – something I would like to see readdressed. And the idea of a tram stop in the village and using the train line to connect Altrincham with the airport and/or Stockport is critical – would have a huge impact on congestion rather than extending the tram to Wigan or Glossop.
By Nick
It will be more suffocation in the are , when you cover the green patch under the massive construction .
The best way only 10% of the green patch should be allowed for houses , shops , community Center & sports Center .
Otherwise it will be cover with the flock of more 6/7 thousand cars .
By Mazhar Kazmi
Look at all these comments… this is why small scaled growth in lots of locations and settlements is a far more sensible approach.
By Anonymous
I see the NIMBY’s are out in force on this one
By Bradford
I live in this area and don’t object in principle. It’s inevitable with the airport being so close; especially if/when they sort out the trains mess. It’s much better that land is released in a coordinated way rather than piece-meal, like what has happened with the World of Water site.
The roads in the area are ridiculously unfit for purpose and seriously unsafe. Driving those back lanes is pretty lethal but it’s ridiculous that there is no cycle route or footpath to the airport from the west. Anybody living Timperley/Hale/Altrincham way is risking their life just to get to work at the airport or hospital.
Some of the details of the plans don’t make any sense though, so I’ll definitely be involved with the consultation.
By Anonymous
Great to see some ambitious proposals for more housing. The sustainable connectivity is all very laudable but let’s remember many people will want to drive places. Any plans for any alterations to Junction 5 or did that go in the “Too Hard Box”? Maybe a smaller solar farm and more houses?
By Up with this sort of thing!
Surely one of the potentially noisiest areas to live, what with the airport flightpaths, the motorways and maybe even the railways if they’re ever sorted out. There’s a large gulf evident here between the sentimental image and the grim reality.
By WayFay
Interesting
Lets hope this isn’t barrat homes style housing but medium rise, high density and some high density low rise, highly sustainable homes. This would condense the cars and parking into specific areas that are close to the best possible transport links/links to the larger roads and thus keeping larger swathes of green space, and traffic away from the smaller roads. Look at the developments in the outer area of Dublin for inspiration, these are largerly apartment based but also high density family homes (yes some in apartments too)
But please for the love of god let’s avoid rabbit warren semi detached tarmac heavy housing estates that rely on cars
By Dan
Yeah what you see there Bradford is people who care about where they live. Y’know some people do and don’t have to fall back on the tired old childish slurs to justify it.
By Anonymous
Come on @WayFay there is also a large gulf between emotive rhetoric and reality-the runways run parallel and further south so no planes to fly over, apart from maybe a few acres to the south the rest is nowhere near a motorway and the railway doesn’t exist yet and likely never will. Doesn’t sound like the nosiest place?
By WayFay2
The proposed scale of this is too large. 645k sqft of commercial space is a nonsense when there are better located sites at Airport City and surrounds that havent seen development in 10-15 years since being promoted. The commercial space is a bargaining chip to get the residential consent only. I agree smaller scale development closer to public transport is the way ahead not this congestion promoter.
By Timp resident
This looks like a fantastic opportunity to deliver much needed new homes and amenities in a well connected part of South Manchester. The usual naysayers will waffle on about potholes etc but this is exactly the kind of large scale, strategic thinking the Country needs
By YIMBY
Its not about ” NIMBY” – it could be a very welcome development but what is key is ensuring that the infrastructure is in place to support it – as the current infrastructure is well beyond capacity. And furthermore ensuring that the “wealth” and “upside” of the development has a larger impact especially in Timperley itself which needs more investment.
By Nick
Will they be building a brand new Hospital as well
By Anonymous
Planners will need to check old maps that show oil and gas wells of 1940s/50s that were along THORley Lane and in the Plan Area they may have replenished? Also water and gas pipeline features associated too.
By Anonymous
What has the improvement of Timperley got to do with Royal London
By Commercial
Much. needed housing and infrastructure, great idea
By Anonymous
This, along with all the other proposed greenbelt site developments in the Places for Everyone scheme is subject to a legal challenge.
By Anonymous
Building a primary school, but what about a secondary school. As in the local there is a real shortage of spaces already
By Anonymous
I am devastated by this – why cant these homes be built on brown field sites in Manchester? It’s a disgrace I’m going to move because there is no infrastructure for this and the housed will not be affordable – tragic
By Gill Brooks
Taking up more and more green belt is an environmental crime. The Pfe scheme is just dressing up another way of taking green land for financial gain via the backdoor. As a local resident for the last 15yrs, timperley has become overcrowded, congested roads, all schools massively oversubscribed and now the money men want to come in and make it far worse than it already is. Anyone who thinks the housing will be affordable need to give their head a wobble, just take a look around. The environmental and social cost of this “development” will be catastrophic for the local area and environment.
By Anonymous
Please do not build on one of the last pieces of green space we have bordering out city. This natural area is a godsend for the local troubled youths, stop making a mess of the place.
By Anonymous
You are destroying an important enteral part of the land that will lead to devaluing the current surrounding areas/ houses. There are hundreds of areas around Manchester of derelict lots/ houses that could be easily transfers into housing.
By Anonymous
Absolutely no one from the area could have been involved in this proposal… because if they even took the time to do the due diligence, they would realise this would be a an absolute disaster from the start to finish.
It’s bad enough they’re forcing 90 homes into a postage stamp at the World of Water site… how on earth do they expect to accommodate all these extra residents?? It’s madness.
By Anonymous
What GP provision will there be for all these new residents? Not to mention the new roads needed and the number of homes justify a whole new secondary school. Crazy
By Cali