Start nears for £13m Salford Rise
The city council has appointed Leeds-based Rhodar Demolition to knock down various buildings within the £2.5bn Salford Crescent masterplan zone to pave the way for the infrastructure project.
Properties at Salford Innovation Park and Wynne Street on opposite sides of Frederick Road are to be knocked down this summer so that Salford Rise can be delivered.
Rhodar was selected to carry out the work out of a shortlist of five contractors, scoring maximum points for cost and an overall score of 94.5% for its tender. The next highest score was 73.8%, according to a report to Salford City Council’s procurement board.
A contractor for the main construction work is yet to be appointed.
Salford Rise is a near five-acre podium to be constructed over Frederick Road to unlock development potential within the 250-acre masterplan.
Being delivered by English Cities Fund on behalf of Salford City Council and the University of Salford, the masterplan also maps out the development of more than 3,000 homes, 1m sq ft of space to innovate and collaborate, alongside 1m sq ft of offices, retail & leisure, a new multi-modal transport hub and green space.
Salford Rise is seen as a key piece of the masterplan, linking two areas separated by Frederick Road.
The project will see an 11-metre-wide, 90-metre-long podium constructed. The scheme is aimed at removing a “significant barrier to movement” within the 250-acre masterplan area and turning the area into a 15-minute neighbourhood.
Designed by Make Architects, the infrastructure/public realm project is being funded by £13m received from the government’s Levelling Up Fund.
Structural engineer Cundall and landscape architect Planit-IE are also on the Salford Rise team, as well as fire safety engineer Design Fire Consultants.
Perhaps the most important among the projects to benefit from the Salford Rise scheme will be Crescent Innovation, a key component of the Salford Innovation Triangle named in the recent Levelling Up White Paper as one of the UK’s innovation accelerators, which will see £100m invested into three public-private academic partnerships to encourage research.
This area will focus on creating a research, development, and innovation campus that will sit at the northern gateway of Salford Rise.
Absolutely can’t wait for this. Bring on the pedestrianisation of Salford!
By Anonymous
How about spending a bit of money on some local pubs so the community can go and socialise over a few drinks ???
By Rob Salford
So it’s an extremely expensive footbridge over a road?
By Bernard Fender
using a leeds based demolition company ??? surely keeping it local would keep jobs local or in the Manchester areas
By lee Colgan
Hope there’ll be more than a lick of paint for a cycleway.
By Active Travel Trev
If this is done sensitively, this will be the best entry road to Central Manchester. The Crescent and Chapel Street, has the best architecture en route into the centre of Manchester. Let’s get the trams on this stretch too.
By Elephant
I would ban cars on this road and allow cyclists only
By Manchester is Green
Will the restoration of the derelict Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal between Oldfield Road to Frederick Road be included in this plan? If not, why not? Steven Parker, Founder, Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal Society in July 1987 (Aged 17)
By Steven Parker
When are you guys going to demolish the Lancastrian building and give us back our town centre?.
By Brian Roughley Swinton Born and bred
3000 new homes and not one for any of the residents who live there
By Jamie Thomson
In reply to Jamie at 12:52: That’s kind of the point isn’t it?
By Bradford
Knocking down buildings that only been up a few yrs, houses people can’t afford. Stop ruining the area
By Anonymous
I love it.
By Ian Simpson