The facts
Project Location: Pendleton Way,
Salford
Client: Salford City Council
Start Date: Jan 2000
Completion Date: Ongoing
Contract Type: Strategic Partnership
Procurement method: Call down of
services
Project Construction Value: Commercially
sensitive
Services provided: Strategic Property and
Regeneration advice,Acquisitions, Compulsory purchase refererencing
and process, Disposals, Estate Management advice, Land Reclamation
costing advice, Demolition works, Planning Guidance and
Masterplanning.
The project
Salford City Council had a longstanding proposal to
deliver a new food retail Superstore on land adjoining the existing
Salford Shopping City in Pendleton.
Proposals had been developed in conjunction with private sector
partners for the delivery of a 140,000 sq/ft gross food retail
superstore on the site, complete with Petrol Filling
Station with the opportunity for a Circa 100,000 sq/ft
extention to the existing shopping centre with effective linkages
between the new and existing facilities.
The subject site was occupied by two primary schools, a
Methodist church, a laundry, a youth club and a local authority car
park. All would need to be acquired/ reprovided if the
project was to proceed. The site is also separated from the
existing shopping Centre by a dual carriageway that presented a
physical barrier to the provision of an integrated scheme.
Capita Symonds provided Salford City Council with comprehensive
advice on the proposals which have resulted, to date, in the
acquisition of the majority of the non council owned interests
within the site.
The acquisitions have been supported by the proposal to make a
compulsory purchase order to secure the land necessary for the
proposals to be implemented. The acquisition negotiations have
required the assembly of two areas of land in the nearby Langworthy
area to accommodate a replacement methodist churst and a
replacement primary school. This has required the acquisition of in
excess of 350 residential properties that had been identified for
clearance as part of the Housing Market Renewal proposals for the
area. Subject to Contractual completion and planning consents it is
expected that the project will start on site in September
2010.