Student Apartments approved in booming Salford

Booming Salford – now dubbed one of the country’s ‘key growth areas’ – is set for nearly 2,000 new homes after town hall chiefs gave six residential schemes the green-light in just a couple of hours.

The city will get 1,100 new apartments on the banks of the Quays – as well as 300 new student flats and a new office development nearby.

Projects elsewhere, given the go-ahead by the council’s planning committee this week, will see 500 new homes across Salford.

Work on four huge 26-storey tower blocks containing 1,100 apartments at the heart of MediaCityUK will soon start …

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