Bruntwood reveals latest plans for Stretford town centre regeneration

Scheme would include park and hundreds of new homes

Plans have now gone in for the next phase of Stretford town centre’s huge regeneration project.

Permission is being sought for 248 new homes where the town’s shopping centre currently stands. These would be a mix of apartments and houses, with 120 one-bed flats, and 114 two-bed and 14 three-bed houses proposed for the site.

At its highest, the apartment block would reach up to 12-storeys. The ground floor of the building would also offer up retail and leisure units.

A new park is planned for the land too, with developer Bruntwood saying it wants this to be a place of ‘relaxation and social interaction’.

Rob Elsom, development director at Bruntwood, said: “[There would be a] big green public space going right into the heart of the town centre, which will be immediately adjacent to the high street and the new shops, creating a field of vision down to Saint Matthew’s Church at the bottom. It’ll create an interesting focal point, and be somewhere for people to be able to spend time.”

He added: “What would be great is to be able to have retail all the way down King Street, all the way down the park, and then back up Chester Road where we’ve got existing retail at the moment. So we create a retail loop as well as having the anchor of Aldi on the other side.”

The planning application will need to be validated by Trafford council in the coming days before it is made public and the full details revealed. A public consultation on the scheme will then follow.

Stretford Mall closed its doors for the final time on Friday, February 27. Contractors are expected to be on site from the end of this month, with demolition work due to begin in June and completed around September.

This is not the final phase planned for the Stretford regeneration project, however. Future stages could bring the number of new homes built up to more than 750, with affordable homes proposed among them.

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