Almost £11m has been granted to start the city's biggest ever redevelopment plan.
The North West Development Agency has granted £10.8m to create public squares and highways to link the houses, offices and retail buildings that will be constructed as part of the redevelopment of the Chapel Street corridor.
The first phase of highway works and junction improvements, which will start immediately, will aim to divert traffic away from Chapel Street.
These works will take place at Broad Street/Albion Way; Albion Way/Liverpool Street and Regent Road/Oldfield Road junctions and should be completed by autumn.
Once the first phase has been finished a second phase of improvements to public spaces will begin.
This includes new street furniture, lighting, signage, tree-planting and widening of footpaths and new public squares at Salford Cathedral and St Phillips Church.
The whole scheme for the Chapel Street corridor, which is the size of 21 football pitches, will cost £650m and includes 850 homes, two new hotels, leisure and entertainment facilities and a European-style piazza.
For the full story see this week's Advertiser out on Thursday, March 4.
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mark armstrong (02/03/2010 at 22:41)
How about returning to some old school council services and a halt to salford city council pretending that it is an investment bank.
It's your money they are playing with and if it all goes wrong it's you that will pick up the shortfall.
Mark
salfordrat (04/03/2010 at 08:00)
But it will not be like regeneratng Manchester City Centre - which took more than just the last 20 years. Manchesters rebirth was massively helped along by street level culture wich produced bands and created all kinds of interest that made Manchester an attractive place to be from those from further afield. Not to menttion the hugely profitable IRA bomb. Lets not forget that little windfall for which manchester has been giving thanks ever since.
What will happen here is a load of disruption from road works, followed by a few uncomfortable and ugly looking cast iron benches dotted about (again) - that will soon be graffittii'd (which willbe needed if the council decide to paint them 'vomit pink') - then will come some new retail spaces that will not open (because why would they be able to compete when Manchester arndale is five minutes up the road) which will end up falling into disrepair before, 30 years from now, the next collectin of idiots and theives to populate the council will have another half hearted go at it with the same outcome. The reason being - none of these people have the will to make anything useful happen. And why do they not have the will? Because little men always think of their personal bank balance before anything else and that greed gets in the way.
Good luck.
Higgs Boson, Greater Manchester (05/03/2010 at 16:11)
Cheer up mate