Burgess Farm – Walkden
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XPlans
Providing a total of 350 homes with housing developers Redrow bringing forward 147 and Bloor Homes planning to deliver 143 homes at land off Hilton Lane. Nature park improvements will also be provided at the site.
- Nature Park improvements through 10-year management plan - Great Crested Newt habitat enhancement.
- Improved recreation routes for residents providing access to nature and the associated heath and wellbeing benefits.
Plans
Proposals for a community of high quality in a highly accessible location to the east of the M60 and south of the A580 East Lancashire Road. It will combine family and affordable homes alongside green infrastructure and open spaces.
Benefits
- Provision of much needed family homes including affordable.
- Contributions to education facilities and a potential site for a new primary school
- Contributions towards the delivery of expanded health facilities
- £61.8m investment in construction
- £36.9m total GVA economic output
- 65 jobs supported in retail and leisure annually
- £4.9m uplift in annual retail expenditure
- £1.3m addition New Homes Bonus revenue for Salford City Council
- Within 2km of 14 schools
Sustainability
- Genuinely sustainable development within an urban setting set in a Green Infrastructure setting
- New recreational spaces, including a green infrastructure network with a landscape buffer to the A580 and enhancement of Hazelhurst Fold recreation ground
- Enhanced footpaths and cycleways
- Enhanced links to the Leigh –Salford-Manchester Guided Busway
- New tree planting, ecological habitats, SuDs and water bodies
- Exploring renewable energy generation and sustainable construction to minimise carbon impact
Plans
Proposals for a new community of the highest quality adjacent to RHS Garden Bridgewater. It can deliver around 300 high specification homes as part of a low-density development with a truly landscape led approach to development and an attractive green setting with a significant amount of new open spaces, alongside a shared access with RHS Garden Bridgewater.
Benefits
- Provision of much needed family homes including affordable
- Contributions to new school places
- Contributions towards expanded health services
- Enhancement of the playing field off Quayside close
- £41.2m estimated investment in the construction of the proposed development
- £24.6m total GVA economic output over the construction period
- £.3.3m uplift in annual retail expenditure
- 45 jobs supported in retail and leisure businesses annually
- £610,000 additional Council Tax revenue per annum for Salford City Council
Sustainability
- A network of green infrastructure, children’s play pace and sports facilities which provide opportunities for exercise and leisure
- Retention of valued habitats and enhancement of biodiversity resources, including new wetlands and hedgerow/tree planting
- Exploring renewable energy generation and sustainable construction to minimise carbon impact
- Maintain and enhance the network of footpaths and cycle routes, including connections to the Bridgewater Canal towpath and the nearby Bridgewater Marina, which provides links to Worsley and to the east and Leigh town centre to the west and the adjacent RHS site
Over 20 years Peel L&P have been involved in bringing forward multiple phases of new residential development in Salford, predominately in Boothstown, most recently at the Egerton Grange and Edenfield sites.
Our estate in Salford provides a wealth of opportunities for SME housebuilders.
Plans
5 new homes by North West based developer, Eccleston Homes.
Key Facts
- S106 package with contributions towards construction training, Public Realm, Education Provision and Infrastructure.
- New footpath connection to the LSM guided busway stop on the East Lancashire Road. Located close to existing facilities within Walkden
- Improved surfacing to existing footpath.
Sustainability
- Improvements to habitat corridor along Kempnough Brook
Plans
Peel L&P have been involved in the delivery of various schemes in Boothstown, including 66 family homes (53 open market & 13 Affordable) completed by Countryside at Egerton Grange, more recently 107 family homes (86 open market & 21 Affordable) under construction by Bellway Homes called Edenfields and 20 homes at Simpson Grove Mulbury Homes currently on-site including improvements to local open space area.
Key Facts
- University of Manchester PHD research project - evaluate Social Value of the Canal improvement works undertaken by Peel and wellbeing related behaviour change. 69% increase in people using the canal side footpath since improvements were made.
- Delivering 34 affordable homes
- Funding local shuttle bus for 7 years connecting to Boothstown Village and guided busway.
- Investment in over 12 acres of recreational space
- Over 4 km of footpaths improvement works.
- Creating safer pedestrian links through improvements to pedestrian crossing points.
Sustainability
- Recreational improvements to Bridgewater Nature Park and Vicars Hall Village Green.
- Improved recreation routes for residents along the Canalside footpath and Moss House Lane.
- Creation of a new ecological area with the creation of ponds and marshy grassland habitat at Stirrup Field off Vicars Hall Lane with a monitoring and management plan.

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