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FORMER INNER CITY SALFORD PUB SITE SEES HALF MILLION POUND HOUSES UP FOR SALE
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Star date: 1st July 2019 SITE OF MULVANY'S PUB SEES HOUSES PRICED OVER £500,000 As the popular Mulvany's pub is demolished on St Stephen's Street in Trinity, new 'exclusive' town houses 'on the fringe of Manchester City Centre' are up for sale for over half a million pounds. As City Mews Ltd cashes in, the Salford Star cannot find one penny that the developer has paid back to the city in Section 106 obligations. Full details here…
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The old Mulvany's pub on St Stephen's Street is currently being flattened to make way for nine 'exclusive town houses' with the two cheapest selling at £445,000 and the rest priced at £535,000. Developer City Mews Ltd states on its website that the 'flexible' four and five bedroom houses 'on the fringe of Manchester City Centre' are "A rare opportunity to own a dazzling contemporary town house with fantastic design features...and situated just minutes from Spinningfields and other key destinations of Manchester City Centre." As the developer cashes in, the Salford Star cannot find in any official documents even one penny that City Mews has paid back to the city in Section 106 obligations..."It is not considered that there are any local finance considerations that are material to the application" states the official planning report. According to Salford City Council planning policies there are no payments needed, nor affordable housing specifications, for ten or less houses. The only policy cited is HOU1, which states that "new developments should provide a broad mix of dwelling types". The Council's planning officer remarks that "The proposed development provides two options, with respect to choice of accommodation. Two of the units comprise of four bedrooms with the other seven providing four bedrooms and a large 'home office' on the third-floor, which could be used as an additional bedroom if required. "A range of dwelling types are available within the immediate area and it is considered that the proposed development would diversify this offer further, in accordance with Policy HOU1" it adds. In other words, further 'dilution' of the local community and more 'professionals'. Completion of the houses is set for early in 2020. See also previous Salford Star article: Bulldozers Hit Mulvany's – click here
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at 17:50:52 on 16 November 2019 |
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| To realist. 93 til 24th August 2017. So not 3 years like u thought. An the car park was officiall by the way |
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Realist wrote
at 13:48:32 on 05 July 2019 |
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| Sean 1993 until when?? It’s been an unofficial car park for the last 3 years that I know, derelict.
It’s the way most pubs are going. The old timers that used to use them are gone, most people want cheap booze from the supermarket, and 50% of millennials don’t even drink. When I was 18 it was about 1% who didn’t drink. People can’t afford to now, they are too busy saving up for their dream homes like the ones in this article. |
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Sean Udall wrote
at 06:43:36 on 05 July 2019 |
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| An old pub that nobody used? If nobody used it, how did it keep going since 1993 when it changed its name to mulvanys? |
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ROSSI wrote
at 08:45:31 on 04 July 2019 |
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| Realist, Manchester is England's third city, behind London and Birmingham. NOT the UK's second city. Get it right. Otherwise you just come over as a bit of a buffoon. |
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Realist wrote
at 08:13:58 on 04 July 2019 |
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| WOW! It’s a few houses on a small plot of land that has been used as an unofficial car park on the site of an old pub that nobody used! I smell a bit of jealousy here. Yes they are half a million quid, but they are a short walk into the BUSINESS district of the UKs second city!! What do you expect?!?! You really do need to get with reality. We aren’t living in the 1970s anymore, you can’t buy a house for a few grand. If you are a young executive working in Spinningfields and earning £100k per year then this would be ideal especially if they want to start a family.
Do I agree that property prices are too high, yes, but if there is a demand for it why shouldn’t developers make the profits??? It’s their business.
And ROSSI will you just STFU!! You absolute boring cretin, just SHUT UP. |
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David Henry wrote
at 06:42:25 on 04 July 2019 |
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| Quick search on Companies House for the Building Contractors listed for this development "Insite Construction" reveals two limited companies. Both recently went into liquidation with creditors owing! I'd go into more detail about what I then found in terms of who knows who and what's behind this ugly parasite of a building.... but I'd be here all day.
Not only is the development hideous and pretentious (with it's private roof terraces and gated access - it is ABSURD and UNFORGIVABLE for this kind of development to be built at a time and in a place when there are tends of thousands of local resident families on the waiting list for suitable housing. It is building built purely for the interests of INVESTORS from out of town same people behind "City Mews" (if you do some digging) are involved in our cities private rental and sale estate agent companies, directors of investment capital portfolio firms in London and Edinburgh and have a track-record of delivery poor quality, affordable so called "luxury" financial hone-trap housing such as this.
WHO is directly responsible for approval of PLANNING at our City Council? A council which claim to be opposed to development which contain little or no affordable housing for local people? Whatever committee exists needs to be held to account - as THAT is where the power lies in our local democracy.
Planning Committees, the "elected politicians" who are ignoring the needs of the people they serve, constantly nodding to approval for grotesque schemes such as these without scrutiny.
Why is the allowed to continue, against the views of our Mayor Paul Dennett? against the stance of their own party-political mantra - need to HELD TO ACCOUNT, and declare their interests and connections.
What on earth is really going on? Maybe when such decisions and processes become more transparent to the public, those in charge of them or who influences this kind of thing (secretly and behind closed doors) and questions are able to be asked - many a position may be proven untenable, some even corrupt.
We know this has been the case in the past, back-handers, back-scratching, trade-offs, evidence of anti-competitive commercially-advantageous private-sector arrangements that often put local people at a disadvantage, conflicts of interest... it's all right here on The Star, the truth has eventually come out and always does - the figures responsible ousted.
Houses our not "assets" to be constructed to benefit investors and their (often tax-avoiding) wealth portfolios overseas.
Homes are places for people to live, first and foremost. Our city is being SEVERELY damaged by those aggressively and ruthlessly pursing the latter and what they suck dry from the fabric of Salford, creaming off their own profits, raising property values artificially, bulldozing architectural heritage and so on.... will one day mean our younger generations are no longer about to call Salford their home.
I wonder how many of these "Luxury" family town houses will actually house any families? very few of them if any. Not at half a million quid. No chance mate.
Salford is a fantastic city, we've got as much to acheive and look forward to as we grow now in the future as we celebrate about our history and civic pride - BUT we do not need this level of blatant, unregulated development which takes so much and gives little of what WE and our fellow Salfordian's actually need.
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ROSSI wrote
at 06:40:13 on 04 July 2019 |
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| Ray, quit this nonsense now. Right NOW! Joe has worked tirelessly for his community, and you haven't done anything EVER. You're a total muppet. Just be quiet OKAY. |
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Realist wrote
at 06:39:56 on 04 July 2019 |
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| I second Rays request for some insight from Joe on how he would solve the housing crisis |
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bob the regular wrote
at 06:39:45 on 04 July 2019 |
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| Re Rays point as to how it could be done better. To me this is obvious .On this site we could have put 40- 44 small starter flats for our young people at say 120 k each on shared ownership basis. This would be ideal for those working in town who would be able to walk to work.Trouble is, the people who would do these shared schemes(housing ascociations ect) are more greedy than private builders as they have a vast army of tossers to upkeep.I have a feeling housing market is about to go tits up,so perhapsthese top end houses might suffer.I hope they flog em all though, nothing worse than a stopped housing market, but I have seen it many times. |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 18:50:41 on 03 July 2019 |
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| Right wing reactionaries,like Joe O'Neil,are quick
to criticise but reluctant to come up with practical solutions! So,Joe,how would tackle Salford's Housing Crisis? Come on,dazzle us with your erudition,Joe! |
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bob the regular wrote
at 18:49:57 on 03 July 2019 |
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| sorry Joe, the point I was making was just about the simple fact that I don't find these houses aspirational at all, no matter who lives in them. I know your views on the ethnic and social cleansing carried out by Merry Dennett and co against the people of Salford and I fully agree with them. I long for the day when we get decent councilors back running our city like you and Mary and a few others were.It was not your fault that Tosser Clegg ruined it for many Lib dems up and down our country, when they were making inroads against the two party system. Believe me, these clowns are going 2020. |
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joseph O'Neill wrote
at 08:23:47 on 03 July 2019 |
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| Sorry Bob I was not agreeing with this I fully hate the idea of seeing the city turn into a city of two parts, the rich and the poor the haves and the have not's. Social engineered planning seeing Old Salfordians moved from their homes and offered peanuts, huge profits made by over seas investors, affordable properties a thing of the past unless you count the 12 dennet as over seen. Salford as lost it's identity to me the city is the last bus top before Manchester. |
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bob the regular wrote
at 04:56:50 on 02 July 2019 |
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| For once I must disagree with Joe here. I would not pay 550 grand to live here even if I had it. The area is ok,but I think I would rather have one of the little flats in the square near the shops.The car park spaces look a bit tempting for vandals who will target the nice cars people living in these houses will undoubtably have. |
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joseph O'Neill wrote
at 18:52:37 on 01 July 2019 |
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| I always remember John Merry using the term houses to aspire to, so while the people from outside the city aspire the ones in expire. |
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