More change is coming to Church Street in Eccles after plans were passed to turn a former local newspaper offices into a cafe and hairdressing salon.
The offices of the Salford Advertiser – a newspaper scrapped and closed in 2015 – have remained empty since staff moved out in 2009.
Two units at 28-30 Church Street, a corner end of terrace plot on the main pedestrian route opposite St Mary’s Parish Church, can now be transformed into two new businesses after council planners agreed to a change of business use.
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The applicant – listed as Nurjis Ahmed, of Eccles technical recruitment firm Ambitek – has advised planners that 10 full time and six part-time jobs would be created with the launch of the cafe and hair salon.
The ground floor will be mostly taken over by a cafe and takeaway, with the former front counter of the newspaper office removed for seating, servery and a ‘commercial kitchen’.
The hairdressing salon space is expected to be put on the market for let.
The proposed opening hours are 11am to 8pm daily for the cafe, and 8am to 8pm Monday to Saturday for the salon.
Also in the plans are four one-bedroom flats on the first and second floor.
Other than removing metal shutters for a new shop window to Church Street no external changes are planned.
Until May 2009 Church Street was home to the offices of the now-defunct free Salford Advertiser.
The paper was slowly closed over a number of years as staff moved to Deansgate in central Manchester, then Trinity Mirror’s home in Chadderton, Oldham.
It was replaced – although its distribution changed – with the Manchester Weekly News (Salford Edition), which where available is sold for £1.
Incidentally, the Eccles & Patricroft Journal, which merged with the Salford Advertiser, used to be published from offices further down Church Street, near the Bull’s Head pub.
The planning application can be viewed on the Salford City Council website, search for 16/67950/FUL.
Main image: The Advertiser offices in 2011 – Keppie Massie
