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SALFORD COUNCIL TO FLOG PUBLIC OPEN SPACE LAND TO UNIVERSITY FOR STUDENT FLATS
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Star date: 7th July 2020 BROUGHTON OPEN SPACE LAND TO BE SOLD TO UNIVERSITY Salford City Council is set to flog Public Open Space land near the David Lewis Playing Fields and Peel Park to Salford University for student accommodation. The Council states that no responses were received from its public notices to sell the land – advertised in a local paper during April, at the height of the lockdown! Full details here...
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The David Lewis Playing Fields in Broughton, formerly given to the people of Salford, has long been a centre of contention, with Salford Council and Salford University swapping land there. Now the Council intends to sell land classed as Public Open Space, bordered by University Road and Wallness Lane, near the David Lewis Playing Fields, to Salford University for it to expand its Peel Park Quarter campus. A legal note to the Council report detailing the intended land 'disposal' states that "Under Section 123 (2A) of the Local Government Act 1972 the City Council may not dispose of any land consisting or forming part of an open space unless before doing so it advertises its intention in a newspaper, and considers any objections it receives to the proposal..." Salford Council did advertise the proposed 'disposal' in the Manchester Weekly News for two weeks during April – at the height of the coronavirus lockdown. Unsurprisingly, the report concludes that "No representations were received in response to the public notices". Now, the report states, the City Mayor will "authorise negotiations being progressed with the University to seek to agree terms for a disposal of the land..." No financial details of the sale of the land have been mentioned at this stage, but the cash-strapped University is currently looking to make savings of £21.5million following a £48million loss last financial year and a £28.9million deficit...
For a background on Salford University financial deficits – click here
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Justin wrote
at 12:20:15 on 18 August 2020 |
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| Green light for Salford University's £30m student village on the edge of Peel Park
Plans for a 2,000-bed student block at a park made famous by LS Lowry have been given the go-ahead. Salford University is set to build a £30m student village on the edge of Peel Park.
Manchester Evening News
05:55, 17 SEP 2011UPDATED00:02, 12 JAN 2013
Plans for a 2,000-bed student block at a park made famous by LS Lowry have been given the go-ahead.
Salford University is set to build a £30m student village on the edge of Peel Park.
The public gardens were an inspiration for Lowry, who studied nearby.
University bosses say the proposals, which will mean felling 158 trees, will make the park safer and attract students.
But opponents say the development will complete the university’s ‘takeover’ of the space.
The plans, part of the university’s 20-year masterplan, will see three blocks of flats of up to 10 storeys built alongside and in the park.
They were given the go-ahead at a meeting of Salford planning chiefs.
Planning officer Tim Hart said the park currently feels unsafe due to under-use and thick tree cover.
He added: “I felt I could have been robbed at any minute because you don’t feel secure in the park as you use it.”
But Irwell Riverside councillor Stephen Coen, who objected to the proposals, said urban sprawl was obliterating the scene of Lowry’s 1927 painting, Peel Park. He said: “This is an historic park not just for Salford but for the country. Over the years the park, due to university expansion, has become more enclosed and separate from the community it sits in.”
Planning committee member Norbert Potter added: “You might as well give the university the park and say it’s yours to do what you want with.”
After councillors raised fears over tree loss, the university agreed to replace every one with two more in the Chapel Street area.
The plans were passed by eight to five. |
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Gareth L wrote
at 10:20:58 on 18 August 2020 |
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| I am sick and tired of Salford Council and their dealings. All they are concerned about is the area around Chapel Street. Selling more public land off is disgusting.
Maybe they wouldn't need to sell the land off on the cheap if they actually collected council tax as they should. Or god preserve us actually be efficient and not waste millions each year.
What gets on my nerves even more is the idiots who just turn up every election and vote for them and they have no idea what is actually going on.
When the Salford Star goes, god help us we wont know anything. This council and the full time councilors who hold the power are so arrogant that they don't even have to bother with the electorate they just do what they want. |
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Tree loving Darren born bred. wrote
at 18:31:27 on 17 August 2020 |
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| I went out yesterday afternoon for a walk and doss about with me 2kids. We went to peel park and then to the lovely meadow fields. While I was on the park, I stopped and seen the students digs blocks that was built about 5years ago on Peel park. Now more students digs blocks are planned on the land facing it and again, it's part of the park and i counted about FIFTY TREES on the land which is for the new blocks of students digs. Save the trees. 🌲 🌲 🌲 🌲 🌲 |
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Bob wrote
at 15:18:38 on 11 July 2020 |
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| This little bit of land is all part of the great master plan the council have with the University. The council love the University. All we want to know is what is going on at the other end of the park where the old police station site is.What is going on there? Have the council paid out the £10 million compo to Stama developments or not? If they have, then perhaps they can tell us what wonderful proposals they have with the uni for that site. |
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paul kelly wrote
at 19:53:24 on 08 July 2020 |
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| The entrance to the David lewis/peel park is on fredrick road lower Broughton the park is in lower Broughton and the top of fredrick road strawberry hill is in pendleton and seaford road leads up to pendleton the area at the top of peel park is the crescent the river does not form any split in Lower Broughton and as a Broughton lad i would say the manchester side that i recognised as a kid were the bridges over the Irwell Shereborne st new bridge st Victoria st Blackfriars st Bridge st new baily st Regent road bridge where our salford scuttlers would repel any mancs trying to cross the border to the Salford side of the river. |
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Darren born bred wrote
at 15:15:04 on 08 July 2020 |
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| Ben Broughton @ The university have already built about 5 student blocks about 5years ago on peel park, also late last year, a huge AstroTurf football pitches that is also on Peel park, that is always locked (is it for the university students).. Now they are building more students digs on peel park. Yep the park has changed, it's getting smaller, okay buddy. |
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Joe Muggins wrote
at 15:14:16 on 08 July 2020 |
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| With reference to the Manchester Weekly news I don’t think that any people who actually help to produce it either know about the different parts of Manchester and it’s districts or bother to read it.
The last ones that we had delivered had the “Salford Edition” of the Manchester Weekly News with articles about Stockport,Hyde and Stalybridge and very little about Salford.
How the council can get away with stunts like this one is beyond belief, advertising council land sales in a paper that hardly anyone buys and is given away for free, you couldn’t make this up. |
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T Kitson wrote
at 10:07:18 on 08 July 2020 |
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| Is it Broughton that side of the river? Thought not, as Kersal & Broughton unique in Salford, both on the "Manchester side" of the river? |
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The Vindicator wrote
at 06:12:26 on 08 July 2020 |
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| Another first rate deal for the citizens of Salford, though not quite on par with the Salford Reds Stadium fiasco. Public to private ownership while telling people it's a great deal. Remind anyone of the cornerstone of the sainted Maggie's second term in office. Don't forget to tell Sid ! |
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Confused Kenny wrote
at 06:12:03 on 08 July 2020 |
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| I live in Salford can somebody please tell me what "Manchester Weekly News" is i remember the old advertiser is it a new name for that? If it is then please excuse my ignorance as i have never had it delivered to my door! Is it a paper you have to pay for? |
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Ben broughton wrote
at 06:09:11 on 08 July 2020 |
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| Since the university have been building in the park, the park has been maintained a lot better to a better standard, it’s changed for the better over the last 15 years. |
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at 06:08:50 on 08 July 2020 |
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| the meadow is on meadow road its always been called the meadow dont fall for the university changing names to suit an agenda ie wiping out salfords history with the help of a bunch of snide councillors and property developers. |
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Darren born and bred wrote
at 16:41:26 on 07 July 2020 |
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| Who the **** reads the mcr weekly news, nobody.. I've looked closely at the map above and it's facing the new students digs that were built about 5 years ago, the ones that were built again on the lovely peel park. I went for a few walks with the kids here a few times during lockdown around peel park and over the footbridge to the scenic meadows Fields, it's beautiful.. Late last year, they built a big football AstroTurf off wallness lane again on peel park fields. Im annoyed. |
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white wrote
at 16:41:02 on 07 July 2020 |
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| Wasn't Manchester Weekly News closed down for a while during April?
I wouldn't know, because I'm lucky if one arrives here one week in four. |
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Brian Nicholson wrote
at 16:40:58 on 07 July 2020 |
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| Labour are against open spaces and green belt land. This sort of thing must stop! |
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Kenny wrote
at 14:42:20 on 07 July 2020 |
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| Salford university is stealing Peel park piece by piece. I say stealing,because they pay such a low price for the land. As for the public notice of sale,they put it in a newspaper nobody reads. Just another underhand trick by the Salford Mafia run council. |
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