Plans have been submitted for a new neighbourhood consisting of 295 homes on land east of Boothstown.
The developer, Peel Land, plans to build a new housing estate on land in Boothstown, next to RHS Bridgewater, off Leigh Road.
The original planning application consisted of 350 homes in Boothstown, however this has now been reduced to 295 after feedback from the community.
The new neighbourhood will be situated on an area of green belt land that is set to be released.
The land is set to lose its green belt status under the Greater Manchester Places for Everyone scheme, which aims to build 28,000 new homes in the city. Salford became the first to adopt the development scheme in March this year.
Places for Everyone is a long-term development plan for nine Greater Manchester districts including Salford.
For the proposed neighbourhood in Boothstown, Peel stated it would maintain a 50 per cent affordable housing provision. This will be delivered through a mixture of on-site homes and off-site contributions.
The plans further include new play parks and active travel routes, as well as improved connectivity to the local RHS Garden Bridgewater and the Bridgewater Canal.
A spokesperson for Peel Land said: “We are pleased to be submitting updated plans for the land to the east of Boothstown which is now formally allocated as part of Salford’s development plan.
“We have reflected on feedback from Salford City Council and the local community and made change, to ensure the scheme delivers for the local area.
“These plans reflect our commitment to creating a vibrant, sustainable community that will be one of the most exciting, greenest, inclusive new developments in Salford and Greater Manchester.”
Shocking, Leigh Road is gridlocked in the morning and evening rush hours. Even more standing traffic. Cars won’t get off that estate easily, that will be about 600 cars on that estate. Only piece of green space left . No more Doctors , dentist places. It will spoil a place of natural beauty, disrupt the wildlife, ie the deer in the woods.
How they can justify building any new houses at all in boothstown is beyond belief we are already overpopulated there is one road in and out of boothstown and it is constantly gridlocked we have one dentist and one doctors surgery we have 2 primary schools that are already at capacity there is no infrastructure or bypass built to support the building of these houses the traffic survey was done almost during Covid and now with the traffic lights at the Worsley roundabout it is now even worse when are they going to take the environment, children’s needs and infrastructure to support all this housing
1 “active travel routes” you either go left / right onto Leigh road or you don’t come off your new development.
2 “sustainable – exciting and GREENEST”it’s already GREENBELT land.
3 “active travel routes” and “improved connectivity to RHS” ITS NEXT TO THE RHS so how can you improve it.
Places for everyone scheme is a joke as all houses on new development will be over £300k minimum.( Please prove my wrong)
You have not taken into account that no one wants our only green space taken from us and only goes to prove that you all just want to screw every last penny out of this area whilst putting nothing back in….
Reflected on what feedback? No mention of the unmanageable amount of traffic all day everyday and the fact the schools, drs etc are already full and the fact you will be killing off more deer to build them! No resident of boothstown or the surrounding areas wants more houses and more traffic,
Totally against this building project! It would ruin the open aspect of the entrance to the RHS garden, deplete more of the green space around Boothstown and add to the already congested roads in the area.
We need to block the proposals at every opportunity.