Housing association City West have won planning permission for a new five-storey block of flats in Eccles.
Linked to the 12-storey College Croft tower block by a first-floor footbridge, the apartment block will be built on Fox Street, in the town centre.
The upper four floors will accomodate 20 one-bed and four two-bed apartments, with a 2,000sq ft restaurant and bistro on the ground floor available for residents to use.
The ‘extra-care’ development – a form of retirement housing with personal care and 24 hour support – will be built on demolished garages around 100 yards from the Grade I-listed St Mary’ Church.
City West plan to finish the 17-metre building in red brick.
Two full-time and two part-time staff will manage the facility, say the housing association.
It would mean new landscaping for a particularly unattractive overflow car park in the middle of the town.
In 2015 City West secured another extra-care facility, the 56-bed Bourke Gardens (formerly Ninian Gardens) in Little Hulton.
City West Housing Trust joined the ForViva group of social landlords in June 2015.
They promise to deliver an investment of £140 million to build 1,500 homes in the North West by 2018.
The architects on the build are Hallsall Lloyd.
