Next phase of £1billion development in Salford set to be approved

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Plans for more than 1,000 apartments, 12 supported living flats and two house shares are set to be approved at a Salford council planning meeting next week.

The next phase of the £1bn Middlewood Locks development would see 909 flats built on two plots of land - E and N - next to the Ordsall Chord railway line.

A 17-storey residential building is also planned for a site south of Regent Road.

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A bid to build 12 specialist supported living apartments for people with learning disabilities together with five affordable terraced houses on green space in Walkden which has received 93 objections could also be approved.

And two applications to covert properties in Claremont ward into houses of multiple occupation (HMOs) will also be considered by the planning panel.

Planners have recommended that the panel approves all six applications.

The latest plans for Middlewood Locks are set out in two applications – one for 659 apartments in two blocks and another for 250 apartments in one building.

The wider development was granted planning permission in principle in 2016 and much of it is already built – but specific details still need to be signed off.

Most of the apartments in the latest applications by Fairbriar Developments would have one or two bedrooms, but some of them would be three-bed units.

The two blocks on Plot E - up to 28 and 32 storeys respectively - would be linked by a 'podium' with a car park accommodating 48 cars and 140 bikes.

Communal roof terraces would be created on the lower parts of each block.

There would also be 1,712 sqm of commercial space within these buildings.

Jo is a Local Democracy Reporter covering councils, the NHS and other