Sunday 21 January 2007

Source: Inside Housing

Local authority
Salford City Council

Housing association
Contour Housing Group

Architect
Halliday Meecham, detail design architects for the first phase, Ainsley Gommon Landscape,Architects for the first phase, MBLA Architects master planners

Developer
Countryside Properties PLC

Cost
Total development cost of Lower Broughton is estimated at £500 million.

Location
Lower Broughton, Salford

Number of homes
Phase one of the development will include 432 one and two bedroom apartments and two, three and four bedroom homes. The entire development will include up to 3,500 new residential properties comprising a mix of houses and apartments of various types, sizes and tenures.

The site
Lower Broughton has been under utilised and, due to a decline in population, now includes wasted land assets due to dereliction and abandonment.

The scheme
New Broughton is located on the eastern side of Salford and less than a miles walking distance from Manchester city centre. Developed in conjunction with the partners and the local community, New Broughton is set to transform a once neglected area into a thriving, bustling new sustainable community that includes a mix of private and affordable homes with managed open space a new road infrastructure together with commercial, retail and community assets.

Features
The properties have been designed to provide residents with a good level of security and space with access through electronic gates leading onto central courtyards encompassing car parks and landscaped communal grounds.  The generation of this new community will ensure that New Broughton is a place in which people are proud to live, work and socialise.

Affordability
The first phase of the development will comprise approximately 30% affordable housing and 70% private.

Completion date
The first 186 homes will be completed by November 2007 with the whole of phase one being complete by autumn 2008.