00:00Hello everyone my name is Declan Carey I'm the local democracy reporter for
00:05Salford and today I'm here in Greengate in the heart of the city we're gonna
00:11hear a little bit from the council about some of the big plans for this area just
00:18looking around and there's an awful lot going on here that's been happening in
00:22the last few years there are lots of buildings going up which are flats there
00:29are offices there are places to eat drink it feels like this area is undergoing
00:35massive changes at the moment and has been for for years really a lot of
00:41people in Greater Manchester especially around the city centre areas have links
00:46to this place either they pass through it for some people it's their home they
00:51live here others just work here others maybe commute through here but there are
00:56an awful lot of people who here every day we know that part of the plans for the
01:01future are to invest in more open spaces and improve the public realm here and the
01:08council has got two million pounds which is planning to invest in this area that's
01:14as a result of some of contributions from development in the city so let's hear a
01:20little bit about what the future could hold for Greengate afternoon I'm down
01:26Welsh from the council's development team principal program manager looking
01:32after the wider city centre patch with a focus on the Crescent area and Greengate
01:37tell us a little bit about the future of Greengate then Dan there's a big
01:41exciting plans here aren't there so huge huge plans you can see the scale of
01:46development or Cortland Tower being one example just behind us Renica have
01:52delivered thousands of new homes here I think overall at the minute we've
01:56delivered coming up for 3,000 homes across a mix of different sites not just
02:01Renica schemes overall ambition is to deliver about 5,000 homes here with a mix of
02:06commercial space as well so just in the distance you can see the focus of the
02:11commercial development embankment 100 and 101 the focus has now shifted to this area
02:21Cortland Tower completed recently by Renica Bankside just next to it the second
02:27tower as part of the Cortland Yard development has just completed Renica are
02:32now moving on to Parkside which is the third of the final big towers and we're currently working with Renica on plans for future phases of
02:40residential driven development on the Aldridge's site close to Trinity Way
02:47yeah so lots going on and what's it going to be like as a place to live what's the
02:53kind of overall vision for residents so the vision is to create a dynamic mixed use
02:57community with a focus on really high quality public realm we're stood in
03:01Greengate Park the first phase of which was delivered by Renica as part of the
03:06Cortland Yard scheme this has been open about a year and a half now really well
03:12used by residents just behind us you can't quite see the sign but a new Greek
03:18restaurant has opened there so the commercial ground floor uses which are
03:21really going to start bringing this area to life are coming on stream now just in
03:25the distance you can see the Arch Co I've been working at refurbishing these
03:30archers for new food and drink uses coming forward over on the other side at
03:35Gorton Street Progressive Living have a planning consent to do the same activate
03:41those arches so over the next few years we will start seeing that kind of
03:44vibrancy animation here we've also got long-term plans as I say we're in the
03:49first phase of Greengate Park the second phase will span over the road and take in
03:56the the current Euro car park site which is identified for another high-rise
04:01development in the Greengate regeneration strategy so much more
04:05public realm to come connectivity more greenery biodiversity but there's some
04:12land assembly required to facilitate that we're gonna pan over to Councillor Mike
04:18McCusker now Mike you're the lead member for sustainable development I think I've got
04:24that right that's right transport sustainable development so Mike I mean
04:29it's an exciting part of the city isn't it Greengate tell us how it feels
04:34being here how it's changed and I suppose what your vision is and the
04:39council's vision is for this part of the Salford yeah so when we came up with the
04:43first sort of planning documents about how we would regenerate Greengate it was all
04:49about the high quality you know we're on the high quality buildings exactly what we
04:52we now see in front of us and also the important part about building a place
04:56that people would like to live in so all the stuff around parks around creating a
05:01boulevard link different bits together so very much around this been you know
05:07high quality area with great access through to Manchester City Centre I am and
05:13every time you come down it's different you know something new is being
05:16delivered so I think we're well on the way to bringing that forward and as a
05:22place to live at the minute so we I've just had a walk around it it's a little
05:25bit quiet today around here that it's very residential at the moment isn't it is
05:29the plan to change that in future in terms of more shops and maybe things things to
05:33do places to go yeah I think as Dan said you know once we reanimate all the
05:36archways you know that that'll make a real buzz to the place and we're as we're
05:41already seeing businesses restaurants etc moving into the ground floors of the
05:46towers that have gone up here and I think that the less car parks there are the
05:51more of a buzz there will be to the place and yeah this this this was a huge car
05:57park basically for people to drive through Salford to park here and then
06:01walk to work in in Manchester City Centre which meant we didn't get any benefits as a
06:06city other than pollution and surface car parks so this strategy is also about
06:12you know building high density where it's appropriate it means that 80% of
06:16the developments taking place in Salford is on Brownfield site which means you
06:20know it takes pressure off green spaces in other parts of the city I will ask you
06:25about obviously transport you mentioned there about how people get around and
06:30move around the city we know on Chapel Street there's big works going on at the
06:33minute where there have been some frustrations from from drivers about
06:37delays can you tell us a bit about that how does that fit into the plan for
06:41Greengate and for Salford yeah well a key part of my job title is sustainable
06:46development what we want is to create places where people aren't reliant on
06:50cars and you'll see across the three worlds where we've had the most
06:53development car ownership is falling so in this area you know we're getting to
06:58like 60% of people don't choose to get a car or a van because we've got
07:03you know we've got good public transport obviously we've invested in that
07:07bringing the cost down improving the performance of that I am trying to create
07:13more safer spaces for people to cycle or to scoot I am and the whole thing about
07:20Chapel Street is trying to you know improve the public realm basically to make
07:25it far more easy to be traveling active improving it in terms of green you know
07:32we're gonna have rain gardens sustainable urban drainage and so it just becomes a
07:37far more attractive space in which to live yeah and finally obviously when
07:43people are choosing to maybe move here in the future or maybe want to work here in
07:47the future what sort of place is it going to be say in the next five or ten years
07:50how would you describe well someone described it recently as it's gonna look
07:54more like London than Salford and could say it might look better than some parts
08:00of Manchester City Centre because well you know we basically started with a blank
08:05slate of a load of car parks and which has meant working with developers we've been
08:09able to create a much more attractive space perfect and finally anything to add
08:14before we wrap up and no I thought well just that you know this we're not even
08:20halfway through really in terms of the development that's coming forward I am
08:24the amount of inward investment we've managed to attract through setting a high
08:28standard about the quality I am I think it's paid dividends thanks
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