Plans for a new green and affordable neighbourhood, with a scheme for 90 homes in Salford have been submitted to the council
The proposals will see the former Regent Trading Estate become Oldfield Basin. It will feature 63 one and two bedroom apartments and 27 town houses designed to Passivhaus standards.
The new homes would stand next to Islington Mill, location of the Islington Mill Arts Club (IMAC), one of Greater Manchester’s most important bases for artists and creative businesses.
Two commercial units from the five warehouses on the existing site will be retained for continued use by cultural enterprises.
Natalie Kennedy, senior project manager said:
We are delighted to be working with Dérive on the project and believe this partnership can breathe life back into a brownfield site and provide 90 much-needed affordable, low carbon specification homes. We believe this partnership, subject to planning, will help meet people’s housing needs by establishing a new and sustainable neighbourhood, whilst also delivering social value for the city.”
