Starting from Salford Central Station, we cycle along Trinity Way, the Inner Relief Road or Ring Road in Salford to take a look at Salford city development projects old, recent, new and planned, an interesting mixture of styles on the site of the old Salford. I have a few ‘before and after’ as well as ‘stages of construction’ views.
Salford city development. My Brompton bike ride is of interest to residents, investors, and anyone curious about the changing face of local urban planning in the Salford City Council area. We see how modern Salford architecture contrasts with traditional Salford architecture.
This video provides a look at the ongoing growth within the Greengate district. If you are interested in urban planning or want to see how Salford is changing, the footage offers a direct view comparison of now and the past.
I check out the current state of the city from both from the air and from street-level vantage points.
0:00 Introduction from AidanEyewitness
1:15 Where is Salford on the map?
4:35 Salford Cinema, the Filament and City Point
6:25 Gas Offices 1880
7:00 Obsidian 2026
8:40 Renault site and The Black Friar pub
10:00 Collier Street Baths 2015 photo
11:40 Greengate, site of One Heritage tower
12:50 Colliers Yard residential development
14:20 Greengate photo 2005, Abito and Anaconda Cut tower
15:30 Parkside under construction
At the beginning I establish the location and boundaries of the pre-1974 Salford and the post-1974 Salford in relation to Manchester and Greater Manchester, combining old and new maps. I mention the Anaconda Cut, which is also the name of one of the recent residential towers.
What is the status of the One Heritage Tower? The plot where it is/was to be located has been purchased by Renaker. More in the video.
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Some of my source material:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortland_at_Colliers_Yard
PLANNING | Salford says yes to Salboy and Domis’ 26-storey tower
https://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/outside/SALFORD/gassoffices.html
https://www.rund.co.uk/project/parkside
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6 Comments
Oooh how interesting that you’ve covered a building that I live in, on chapel street. It’s a good little area! If you look on google, next to The Kings Arms you’ll find one of the smallest roads in England; The Mews. Nice historic pub and old buildings along that street, as well as a little development going on next to the pub too, though not as vast as other projects you explore.
Thank you for this Manchester video.
Thank you very much, very interesting. I am so glad I will never have to live in Salford. I've probably only a decade to go or so (if I'm lucky) and I feel so sorry for all the presumably younger folk who have to (have to?) live in these places, while I live in the countryside.
Some good footage in there.
Could see my new Bailey office a few times.
Regularly go up the Salford A6 for lunch.
I live in the Filaments as you showed in 5:05 of the video! I don't love how it looks outside, but the public area in between the buildings is great. I've really enjoyed living here as a whole
For those of us who are not from this part of the world – is Salford greener than Manchester? Where are the parks? And finally, how come so many professional Mancs are, in actual fact, Salfordians?