Salford Central Planning Guidance

Salford Central

Salford City Council and Central Salford Urban Regeneration Company have prepared and adopted planning guidance and a development framework for the Salford Central area to guide the comprehensive regeneration of this important area of the city of Salford and the regional centre, to help diversify its economic base and encourage new activity.

The area covered by these documents extends to 50.4 hectares and is focused around Chapel Street and Salford Central Station including the Islington, Adelphi and Middlewood areas. The transformation will create a distinctive part of the city centre, with new high quality commercial and residential properties and leisure uses, dramatic public spaces and new connections to the heart of the city centre.

Salford Central Planning Guidance

The planning guidance establishes the policies which have shaped key recommendations within the development framework. Salford City Council as local planning authority will use the planning guidance as a material consideration in the determination of planning applications and other development matters in the Salford Central area. The document has been prepared as a non statutory planning document, but lies within the planning policy framework established by Regional Spatial Strategy and the city of Salford Unitary Development Plan.

Salford Central Development Framework

The framework is a detailed masterplan and implementation strategy to guide the future development of the area. It is key to ensuring that future development in the area is comprehensive and creates an attractive and vibrant place that meets the needs of residents and businesses. The framework sets out the network of routes and open spaces, land uses and the physical form of development to be implemented over the next 15-20 years. There is sufficient flexibility to allow for future change and to take account of constraints not apparent at this stage, provided this does not have a fundamental impact on the vision for the area. The framework can be downloaded from the links at the bottom of the page.

Public consultation

Consultation drafts of both documents have been the subject of extensive public consultation before the final version was published. All comments received within the consultation periods for both documents were taken into consideration, and the guidance was amended where appropriate. A summary of all representations made during the consultation period, together with the council's responses, can be downloaded below.

Adoption of Planning Guidance

The Salford Central Planning Guidance was formally adopted by Salford City Council on 19 March 2008.

The Development Framework for the Salford Central Area was formally adopted by Salford City Council on 19 May 2009.

Both the planning guidance and the development framework should be read together.

The planning guidance, development framework and supporting documents can be downloaded below. Alternatively, both documents and supporting papers can be viewed at the following locations:

• All public libraries within Salford during their normal opening hours. Details of library opening times
• Salford City Council main reception, Civic Centre, Chorley Road, Swinton (open Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30pm)

If you would like to purchase a printed copies of the documents, it is available at a cost of £10.00 each including packaging and postage. To order a copy, please email plans.consultation@salford.gov.uk or send a cheque or postal order, crossed and marked ‘Account Payee' and made payable to Salford City Council, to the address below.

Time for Action - Newsletter

Time for Action is a newsletter communication to local residents, businesses and other stakeholders to provide information and engage them in the process of change for the Salford Central area. The third edition of the Time for Action newsletter (July 2009) can be downloaded below.

Who to contact

Name

Spatial Planning

Address

Sustainable Regeneration
Civic Centre
Chorley Road
Swinton
Salford
M27 5BY
Map to this location

Telephone

0161 793 3782

Email

plans.consultation@salford.gov.uk

This page was last updated on 3 May 2011