Plans for a vibrant neighbourhood in Salford featuring 90 affordable homes set amid one of Greater Manchester’s most inspiring creative communities have been given the green light
The project is being delivered through the English City’s Fund in partnership with Legal & General and Homes England –and will transform the partly-disused light industrial Regent Trading Estate on Oldfield Road into Oldfield Basin.
The new community will be formed around 63 one and two bedroom apartments and 27 town houses designed to Passivhaus standards and attractive new public spaces.
The new homes will stand next to Islington Mill, location of the Islington Mill Arts Club (IMAC), one of region’s most important bases for artists and independent creative businesses.
Two commercial units from the five warehouses on the existing site will be retained for continued use by cultural enterprises, giving Oldfield Basin a distinct identity.
Natalie Kennedy, senior project manager, ECF, said:
We are delighted to be progressing with what is an imaginative and highly sustainable scheme. Oldfield Basin will bring back into productive use a brownfield site and provide 90 much-needed affordable, low carbon homes. The neighbourhood we are creating, alongside a key cultural venue, will be completely unique and strike a chord with people interested in living sustainably in an environment favoured by creatives.”
