City West Housing Trust have got the green light from Salford City Council planners to start work on two new buildings in Little Hulton: a three-storey apartment block and pharmacy.
The fourth and final phase of their Amblecote estate project will see two blocks built on vacant grassed land between Kestrel Avenue and Falcon Drive, near Cleggs Lane Methodist Church.
18 apartments of around 48sq m each will be built in a three-storey block while a two-storey building will house a ground-floor pharmacy with two 2-bed flats above.
All will be for available for social rent and managed by City West.
Kestrel Avenue – which was once access for now-demolished council flats – will be turned into a new access road and car parking space for the blocks. 25 spaces, along with 12 cycle spaces, will be provided.
The Forviva group, of which the housing association is a member, said the plan marked “another step” in their proposal to build 1,500 affordable homes by 2018.
17% of the approximate £2.25 million cost of the build is being funded by the Homes and Communities Agency’s Affordable Homes Guarantee.
After planning approval was granted City West will look to start work in this financial year.
Already constructed as part of their Amblecote masterplan, which was laid out in 2012, are a 66-unit extra care facility at Amblecote Gardens, along with 112 two, three and four-bed family homes.
In a statement to SalfordOnline.com Nigel Sedman, Director of Investment and Regeneration at ForViva, of which City West Housing Trust is a member, said: “We are pleased to have planning permission for the final phase of our Amblecote development.
“This will support our wider regeneration plans for the Salford area, whilst contributing to creating neighbourhoods that residents are proud to live in.
“It is essential that we provide more affordable homes and our new project marks another step in ForViva’s plans to build 1,500 homes by 2018.”
