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SALFORD COUNCIL SEES HUGE GREENGATE APPLICATION FOR TOWERS, PARK AND 1500 PROPERTIES BUT NONE AFFORDABLE
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Star date: 27th February 2020 THREE TOWERS, ONE PARK, 1500 PROPERTIES – NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING Next week, the Salford City Council planning panel will consider an application from AQ Investments for a huge development in Greengate consisting of a new park and public square, plus three residential towers up to fifty storeys high containing up to 1,521 properties – none of which will be affordable, despite the Council's 'refreshed' planning policy. Neither has the applicant's 'viability appraisal' been published. Meanwhile a 17 storey block of 115 flats on Queen Street in Blackfriars by Fred Done's Salboy will provide 10% affordable housing rather than 20%. Full details here...
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Next week, the Salford City Council planning panel will consider a 'hybrid' planning application from AQ Investments, a 'partner' of Renaker Build (one of the companies that paid for the City Mayor's trip to the South of France), for a huge development in Greengate, near Collier Street Baths. Phase 1 will consist of a fifty storey block of 559 properties and a public Greengate Park on the site of the old Christ Church graveyard, for which the developer is seeking full planning permission. Phase 2 would include up to 518 apartments in two blocks of up to 41 storeys, and Phase 3 would see 444 apartments in a 40-42 storey tower, plus a boulevard and 'Collier Square'. These latter phases are included for 'outline' planning permission. The Grade 2 listed Collier Baths is not included in the application, with the developer stating that it will wait until Phase 2 for its 'shell and core refurbishment', despite Historic England arguing that it should be done earlier. AQ Investments states in its original application that the scheme will only be for 'market housing', and any request for affordable housing is never mentioned in the Salford Council officer's planning report. This, despite Salford Council's 'refreshed' planning policy that states such developments in a 'high value' area should provide 20% affordable housing...with the get-out that it is 'by negotiation'. The developer confirms that a 'viability assessment has been submitted' – but despite the Council insisting that these should be published publicly, it is nowhere to be seen in the public domain... "Where planning obligations do not accord with all of the policy requirements in this SPD, it is important that local communities can understand fully why a reduced contribution is considered necessary and appropriate" the Council wrote in its 'refreshed' planning policy "The publication of viability appraisals is a key aspect of this..." Instead, the Council officer states in the report going to the planning panel next week, that, "The public benefits generated by the scheme are such that officers consider the development to have fully mitigated the impacts arising from it. Consequently, no further planning obligations are sought from the development..." Like last month's planning application to the Council (see here), it looks like pavements are being preferred to affordable housing, despite the City Mayor only yesterday talking about an "affordable housing crisis" at the full meeting of councillors. Elsewhere, on Queen Street in Blackfriars, an application is also going to next week's planning meeting, by Fred Done company Salboy for a 17 storey block of 115 apartments. The development, opposite Done's two green blocks in the Blackfriars 'high value' area should be providing 20% affordable housing, 'by negotiation'. Indeed, the company's original application stated that 25 units would be provided (see here). This has since changed to 12 units, or 10%. Salboy will, however, be coughing up a public realm contribution of £517,500 towards Greengate Park (we thought Renaker was paying for that?), plus a 'sustainable transport budget' of £5,700, which includes "the funding of bus/ Metrolink passes and/or bicycle coupons for future residents"...
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Arnold Rimmer wrote
at 14:13:31 on 05 March 2020 |
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| @TerryD "And as I say, the ordinary council tax payer has not seen any benefits of all this additional council tax that is being raked in, not one bit."
Are you expecting a cheque?
The money will go to fund social care and other legal obligations they have as the Tories have made the council unable to afford to provide it and this will at least provide some relief.
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at 01:25:04 on 03 March 2020 |
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| lost the plot a bit eh bob wrote a load of twaddle on your last post your not into politics but you are and what cynicism dont worry about the future our kids are waking up to the fact that capitalism does not deliver and they know we dont need that fascist groove thang i predict the ending of this system it is unsustainable i hope i live to see end and a more just world and system emerges that puts people before profit and puts an end to homelessness war and poverty optimism forever . |
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Bob the regular wrote
at 08:54:16 on 02 March 2020 |
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| Most of these flats are for investors who will suck each last penny out of our young people who are fortunate to have good enough jobs to pay the rent. Our council like this ,as it helps fuel resentment by our better off well educated youngsters against the landlord class. they are hoping this resentment will manifest itself by turning these young people into radical socialists.By causing resentment in society, you can also get a spin off in a direction you don't want like the rise of people like Adolf Hitler, As we are so often told about the emergence of sinister right wing groups. In countries like Switzerland where people can own things and be prosperous, the public are not arsed about politics. I am the same, the only reason I take an interest in politics is because I can see all the crap all our politicians dish out to our people.If only people could get their blinkers off, but they can't. |
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wrote
at 08:52:57 on 02 March 2020 |
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| oh what shallow little robots a mortgage a big shiny car making money what a sad life im so jealous yawn . |
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Kev wrote
at 09:46:46 on 01 March 2020 |
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| @wrote. Why should the mayor be any different to the average citizen who no longer have the security of long term employment, they take mortgages on, why shouldn't he, especially as he's on 60k or thereabouts. |
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at 07:27:27 on 01 March 2020 |
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| Kev the mayor role is only guaranteed for 4 years, he won’t even be able to get a good mortgage. People do need to wise up and get with reality. Can you imagine the outcry if someone in social housing was booted out because they were on a good salary...... jealousy |
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Bob the regular wrote
at 07:26:49 on 01 March 2020 |
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| Good comments from Darren there.It makes me sad when I see all this poverty, there seems to be more these days than when I was a kid many moons ago.And it seems worse in some respects.Poverty, is an expensive way of keeping the poor in order, think about it ,it does not come cheap. It affects those of us who have to live alongside it as well, let alone the poor souls who have to put up with having nothing.Why do our council not do anything to house the poor? All their leftie mates in London who think the same as they do squeeze the balls of the developers for poorer peoples housing. We will have the chance in May to do something, but we won't. |
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at 07:26:06 on 01 March 2020 |
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| How is DJBs last comment a snipe?? It’s true! Look at the apartments in Greengate, some of them are twice as big as a normal house, the cars parked outside cost more than Darrens three-bed, so If you can afford to live a life of luxury why wouldn’t you?! Pure jealousness from those who would rather sit moaning on their keyboards, than go out and make enough money to get out of their pits.
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Kev wrote
at 12:34:25 on 29 February 2020 |
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| Maybe our beloved mayor could buy one of these instead of taking up a flat tha someone in need could live in. |
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at 12:18:30 on 29 February 2020 |
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| what a simple headed clown djb is i notice he writes nothing of substance because he is a stupid half wit this tit can only post snide and cynical comments what an awful life this scumbag must lead . |
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DARREN BORN AND BRED IN THE GREATEST CITY IN ENGLAND. wrote
at 10:03:25 on 29 February 2020 |
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| DJB @ Normal salfordian people can't afford these expansive small little boxes (apartments) 40 floors up in the sky. The average wage in Salford is roughly 20grand a year. You are okay living in your big lovely house in Worsley near the Barton arms pub. You are a "Salford boy done good". There is thousands of Salford citizens living in poverty, eating cheap £1 microwave Iceland food, going to food banks, going to loan sharks, robbing Peter to pay Paul, people struggling on £73 a week JSA(dole), some people look in bins for food. There is also hundreds of people sleeping rough on the streets of that other city called Manchester every night, cold, starving, dirty, getting beaten up every night for there shoes,coats etc. So today "DJB" you sit in your nice cosy big house in Worsley reading your newspapers and drinking your expansive bottle of wine from the Selfridges shop and think about all the normal salfordian people struggling every day in Salford. okay. |
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at 08:59:28 on 29 February 2020 |
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| libel what libel Done as admitted in newspaper articles he started out working in illegal book making ergo he broke the law and his start up money was illegally made proceeds of crime money .the misery money he made should not be forgotten families devastated and broken by desperate people placing money in his shops hoping for a better life and ending up addicted to gambling salboy fred a tory party doner pardon the pun seems to forget the misery caused when the horse falls and throwing a bit of charity money about does not clean that money or nor will it clear concience Done is no salfordian he turned his back on is class away with him and all the other tory scumbags money over all and no principles . |
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DJB wrote
at 08:59:21 on 29 February 2020 |
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| Good, more rejuvenation and investment in the greatest city in the country, don't see what the fuss is all about, want to live in a better apartment work harder, simple mathematics really. |
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TerryD wrote
at 17:13:07 on 28 February 2020 |
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| @Arnold Rimmer And as I say, the ordinary council tax payer has not seen any benefits of all this additional council tax that is being raked in, not one bit. |
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Legal Eagle wrote
at 17:12:59 on 28 February 2020 |
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| I can see where your coming from,thought the same at first myself,but to all my fellow readers, have no doubt that your editor has full knowledge of the libel laws in this country, and as far as I am led to believe, he has every intention of complying with them. |
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wrote
at 04:55:40 on 28 February 2020 |
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| @wrote good job you didn’t put your name to that libellous post |
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Arnold Rimmer wrote
at 16:31:29 on 27 February 2020 |
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| @TerryD
The small footprint of the tower will provide 1500 properties * approx £2000 in council tax alone. That's an additional 3 million quid for the council to spend where it's needed. |
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wrote
at 14:29:38 on 27 February 2020 |
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| take all fred dones money off him he made his money from the proceeds of crime illegal bookmaking . |
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Terry D wrote
at 14:29:31 on 27 February 2020 |
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| Just who is seeing the benefit of all this development in Salford? Not the average council tax payer that's for sure. Where is all this extra money going? |
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DARREN IN SALFORD. wrote
at 14:28:23 on 27 February 2020 |
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| Not flats, not luxury apartments, Expansive little boxes with a price tag of roughly £300,000 |
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