News

Plans to redevelop a derelict shopping centre in Salford are a step closer as demolition of the existing buildings commences this week.

The Ordsall District Centre was constructed in the 1960s at the heart of the estate which sits between Manchester city centre and Salford Quays. The site was originally home to a supermarket, pub, library, shopping parade and health centre. However, one by one the businesses closed thanks to a mixture of competition in the area and problems with anti-social behaviour. This left just a handful of dilapidated shops and a run-down medical centre.

However, the area’s fortunes started to change in 2006 when local developer LPC Living, owned by the Pervaiz Naviede Family Trust, was tasked by Salford City Council to regenerate the 180 acre estate. Since then Ordsall has been transformed with the creation of more than 500 affordable homes, a new primary school, improvements to open spaces and, in 2011, the completion of a striking new mixed-use development called Radclyffe Park.

The project was designed as a contemporary District Centre with space for smaller retailers in addition to anchor tenants Morrisons, Travelodge and the NHS who relocated their health centre to the development in autumn 2012. Now that the new community amenities are established, demolition of the former district centre has commenced in readiness for an exciting mixed-use development.

The new site will be home to a number of community allotments with work anticipated to start in the new year. At the same time LPC Living anticipate holding a series of public consultations on the wider redevelopment of the site which will include new family housing and public open space.