Back in July, Peel Holdings, via its subsidiary Peel Investments (North) Ltd, submitted plans to Salford Council planning panel proposing to demolish the locally listed farmhouse and connected buildings at Burgess Farm which date back to around 1840, in order to build ten posh houses on the land.
The application was opposed by local councillor Richard Critchley and people from the Little Hulton community, who argued that original plans for the area retained the former farm buildings, and that those buildings had been left to rot since the farm closed so that Peel could claim that restoration would be `economically unviable' (see previous Salford Star article – click here).
Despite Planning Lead Member, Derek Antrobus, approving the demolition, councillors voted to defer the application "For discussions to take place with the applicant at the highest level in order to further explore the potential for heritage value to be retained /incorporated in the development."
On Thursday, Peel takes its new plans back to the planning panel, still seeking to demolish the iconic farmhouse but incorporating poor replicas of the original into the development.
Peel's `compromises' include an "interpretation" of the existing stone wall along the boundary of the site; a new building "in a similar position to the existing farmhouse" with chimneys "to reflect those present on the existing farmhouse" and bay windows "to reflect those in the existing farmhouse".
Council planning officers also state in the new report that there will be "The retention and novation of the Bothy/Smoke House building within the development, for use as a garage or other ancillary building" - `novation'? The substitution of a new something for an old one, according to definition.
Meanwhile, garages and ancillary buildings will have "low pitched roof detail to match the pitch of the existing barns", and materials will match those existing "where possible".
It's all part of an Indicative Design Principles Plan "which seeks to interpret existing
architectural features attributed to the farm buildings to create a sympathetically formed residential development on this prominent site" the officers state, adding that the Plan "should provide Members with a level of certainty concerning the direction of any future scheme on the site"...
Yep, the direction of Disneyland, with a Mickey Mouse plastic replica of important Salford heritage...
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