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Poster attached to gates to attract some attention. This evening we are going along to the meeting of the Neighbourhood Forum in Sale where Mike Webb of Peel Holdings will address the meeting on the recent lottery grant to the Bridgewater Way Project.
Canal plans at Sale East Neighbourhood Forum
6 March 2008
Want to know what's happening to the Bridgewater Way now there's a slice of £50m to spend?
At the next Sale East Neighbourhood Forum on Monday 17 March, Mike Webb from Peel Holdings who will be outline exciting plans to transform the canal area. The forum is taking place in The Chambers at Waterside Arts Centre between 7pm and 8pm.
The Bridgewater Way is an £8 million scheme to improve the towpath surface access points, information signage and street furniture. In December Sustrans, a charity that work on practical innovative ways of dealing with the transport challenges that affect us all, won the TV vote for £50m peoples lottery millions grant. Part of this £50m grant will be spent here in Trafford on the Bridgewater Way project.
The work is due to start on the Sale and Stretford towpath later this year. It is hoped that full length of the Bridgewater Canal towpath can be improved by 2011 - the canals 250th anniversary.
Plus there's also the chance to find out about conservation from the council's conservation officer who will answer questions on what is a conservation area is, how they are chosen, who designs them and the implications involved.
Residents are invited to attend the forum from 6pm to have the opportunity for relaxed and informal talks with staff from the various council departments including planning, street cleaning and traffic, plus staff from partner agencies including the police and local housing associations. Free refreshments are provided.
For further information, contact the council's area services team on 0161 912 1173, email area.services@trafford.gov.uk or visit the council's website find out more about your local neighbourhood forum.
Friday, March 21st,2008
Out on the boat dropping off questionnaires to boats between Stretford and Sale.
Stretford Boatyard
Thursday 3rd. April 2009
List of possible uses currently being compiled
for the project to re-open the boatyard.
email please with any suggestions to 'stretfordboatyard@hotmail.com'
1. Day trip boats
2. Holiday Hire Boats
3. Boats suitable for youth groups
4. Boats offering educational links with the national curriculum
5. Boats offering facilities for rehabilitation
6. Accredited Training Centre & Education Facilities
7. Historical Education facility
8. Day trip boats for people with wheelchairs
9. Residential boats for people with wheelchairs
10. Conferences Facilities
11. Entertainment Facilities
12. Community Activities
13. Cycle Hire access point – linking with routes and national bodies
14. Teambuilding activities
15. Marine Services - provide gas pump out Fuel water launderette Shower toilet short & long term mooring facilities
16. Fabrication and repair services, for other boat users.
17. Painting and joinery services joinery
18. Welding and metal fabrication repair
19. Breakdown and recovery service
20. Crane facility Lifting in/Out for all types of inland watercraft
21. Refreshment & Food Facilities
22. Boat Brokerage & Boat Sale
23. Boat Cleaning
24. Boat Servicing
25. Engine Sale & Distribution
26. Marine Chandlers
27. New Boat Build service
28. Internal Fit out service
29. Taxi service - DM country park etc
30. Kayak Hire
31. Walking Activities
32. Secure Parking
33. Conservation & Wild life Facilities
34. Community Art facility
Rathbone's Dry Dock in Stretford. Repairing and building barges and boats up until the 1970's. In the 1940's over 60 people worked on the site.
Peel Holdings have submitted a planning application for the site
Planning Application Details
Application Progress
Date Received 03-04-2008
Target Date 03-07-2008
Application Details
Application Number: H/69278
Site Address: Former Boat Yard, Edge Lane, Stretford.
Ward: Longford
Application Type: Full
Development Type: Residential - major
Proposal: Detailed planning application for redevelopment of land and erection of one part seven, part six , part five and part four storey building with undercroft car parking to provide 44 no. two bedroom apartments with vehicular access from adjacent car park and pedestrian access from adjacent access road. Associated hard and soft landscaping and boundary treatment works.
Case Officer: Name Ms V Moran
Case Officer: Telephone No. 0161 912 3149
Applicant Name: Peel Ports Limited
Applicant Address: (Ms Louise M Morrisey), Peel Dome, The Trafford Centre, Manchester, M17 8PL
Agent Name: Peel Holdings (Land and Property) Ltd
Agent Address: (Mr Michael Nuttall), Peel Dome, The Trafford Centre, Manchester, M17 8PL
Dates
Valid Date 03-04-2008 Target Date 03-07-2008
Another planning application for the southside of Edge Lane on the former site of Rathbone's Boatyard.
Planning Application Details
Application Progress
Date Received 31-03-2008
Target Date 30-06-2008
Application Details
Application Number H/OUT/69239
Site Address The Former Royal Canal Works, Edge Lane, Stretford
Ward: Stretford
Application Type: Outline
Development Type: Other Business
Proposal Outline: planning application for demolition of existing industrial buildings and redevelopment of site to provide 107 apartments and one restaurant/cafe (A3 unit) totalling 443 sqm gross internal with landscaping, car parking and other associated works including creation of boat moorings along the canal. Consent sought for alterations to existing access to site from Edge Lane with all other matters reserved for subsequent approval.
Case Officer Name Ms V Moran
Case Officer Telephone No. 0161 912 3149
Applicant Name: Wayne Poulton & Michael Meadowcroft
Applicant Address: c/o agent
Agent Name RPS Transport Planning
Agent Address: 52 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 6JX
Dates
Valid Date 31-03-2008 Target Date 30-06-2008
Proposal for the regeneration of Stretford Boatyard and the Bridgewater Canal in Trafford.
Mission Statement
Stretford Canal Project is a “social inclusion enterprise” supporting and encouraging the local community to access and enjoy the inland waterway environment in the Greater Manchester area.
At its heart is the notion that a redeveloped waterway with an accessible infrastructure has the potential to regenerate communities alongside it. The enterprise will operate with one social aim to provide a sustainable enterprise providing access and services that specially cater for all young people, elderly people, people with disabilities, children and adults with learning difficulties and disadvantaged groups.
The Proposal
Boat facilities/yard north of Edge Lane, offering diesel, gas, pump-out, repairs, maintenance and inspection. Training in boat handling, RYA and NCBA affiliated courses and certification, day hire, trip boat and parties catered for, education and information on all aspects of the canal and the natural history associated with the waterways.
A cycling centre offering cycle hire and repairs linking with the Connect 2 Project.
Boat building south of Edge Lane
Marina, operated on behalf of Peel Holdings (on terms to be negotiated)
Strategic goals
• Protecting and enhancing a diverse inland waterway environment.
• Promoting social inclusion, community cohesion and equal opportunities.
• Ensuring access to is made available to all sections of the community.
• Building competitive businesses.
• Attracting and retaining investment, visitors and talent.
• Creating world-class skills.
• Achieving economic inclusion.
• Providing employment opportunities to those often excluded from a mainstream workforce
• Providing services to those who may not receive a service without a new initiative
• Providing access in a geographical area that otherwise may not receive it
• Aim to divert profits to community causes
• Committed to preserving and enhancing the heritage value of the waterway whilst making the experience safe and accessible
• Enhance Services for the benefit of both current and future generations
• Provide a broad range of service including leisure, environment, heritage, education, health and social inclusion that attract increasing numbers of visits
• Be a responsible member of the community engaging with the wider community base with concern for the environment and focusing on long-term sustainability
Aims of the business:
We aim to keep alive and inspire skills diminished in recent times that had once been such an integral part of many run down communities. As a waterway service we would like to continue to deliver a range of economic, environmental, educational and social benefits for the people of Stretford and Manchester.
Our ambition is that we will have created a vibrant, self-sufficient social enterprise. It will be regarded as one of Manchester most important and valued assets. Visitors will be delighted by the quality of the experience and as a consequence will become active participants, so that once again the waterways can be rediscovered and widely used. People want to live, work and spend time by our canals and rivers - they have the power to transform communities, attract investment and create jobs.
Manchester has a proud history of creativity and innovations, directly linked to the development of the waterway. Essentially, our ambition is to become a waterway social leader in providing and delivering high quality cultural services that directly contribute to the economic success of greater Manchester and enable people to reach their full potential.
Background to the project
Manchester’s inland waterways are one of the areas greatest untapped assets for the local community. They give the local community and visitors unique access to unspoiled countryside as well as an insight into how Manchester harnessed its rivers and canals to accelerate the Industrial Revolution.
Stretford has a connection with boat building on the canal since the early days of the canal. At the peak of operation there were three boatyards operating here employing over 2,000 people within a short distance of Edge Lane. Towards the end of barge traffic in the 1970’s, T&W Wells were still employing over 60 people in the industry. Boat building and canal operators contributed to the success and prosperity of the area. Light engineering and manufacturing units exist along the canal and to this day Stretford has managed to retain the industrial connections that have existed in this area since the construction of the canal.
Once again the canal is a core ingredient in helping to regenerate the city today. Navigable waterways drove the industrial revolution and created many of the cities like Manchester we know today. Having fallen into dereliction in the last century it seemed to be the end of the importance of the waterways. However, the waterways and canals can offer a sustainable and environmentally friendly solution to the increasing problems associated with transport in helping to reduce the carbon footprint and may become again, in the twenty first century, as valuable an asset to the city as they were in the nineteenth century.
Recently the canals have been and continue to be a vital part of the rejuvenation of Manchester, but it is critical also to restore such vital services that are needed, and that come through regeneration, to bring local communities together also.
Importance to Stretford and the Greater Manchester area.
Since the collapse of Egerton Narrowboats in 2006 the boatyard at Stretford has remained an empty site. Strong interest remains both within the wider and local community to revive the boatyard. It is important to the community as a whole to have access to the canal and local facilities associated with it.
The Planning Policy Framework
We believe that our proposal fits in well with the policy framework provided in the Trafford MBC Unitary Development Plan. In particular, we would point to the following policies, where issues relevant to our scheme have been highlighted:
Trafford: The Vision for Stretford . (extracts from policy documents)
Policy a1 (Priority Regeneration Areas)
The Council is committed as a matter of priority to the regeneration of the urban areas listed below via the development and redevelopment of land, the conversion and refurbishment of available buildings, landscaping and other environmental improvements, the construction of improvements to the local transport infrastructure and other support measures: -
Stretford and Urmston Town Centre Regeneration Areas.
Policy Env 29
The Council will seek to upgrade the environment and improve the appearance of land adjoining the Bridgewater Canal:
a) Promoting environmental improvements in partnership with Manchester , Salford and Trafford Groundwork Trust and the private sector;
d) Requiring that developers on land adjacent to the canals do not inhibit their use for navigation.
Part II Proposal OSR14 – Recreational Use of the Bridgewater Canal
The Council will encourage and promote measures to: -
i. Improve access to and the use of the Bridgewater Canal for informal recreation use;
ii. Improve the use of the canal tow-path by cyclists and pedestrians where this is compatible with other uses and with provisions of Proposal OSR6;
iii. Improve linkages to other existing or planned recreational routes in the Borough (see Proposal OSR15).
The Council will not grant planning permission for any development proposal that will prejudice public access to the Canal and its future use for the purposes described above (see Proposal OSR16).
Part I Policy T1 – Sustainable Integrated Transport Network
The Council will support and encourage the development of a sustainable integrated transport network in the Borough that is accessible and offers a choice of modes of travel to all sectors of the local community and visitors to the Borough.
Part II Proposal T10 – Transport and Land Use in Town Centres
Town Centres of Altrincham, Sale , Stretford and Urmston,
i. The need to improve access to these centres, particularly opportunities to reach them by public transport, by cycle and on foot;
ii. The need to ensure that vehicle movements within and around the centres do not exceed environmentally appropriate levels.
In pursuit of (ii) above, the Council will seek to ensure appropriate provision and improvement of facilities such…….. the provision of safe and attractive cycle routes and secure cycle parking, and the provision of safe and attractive pedestrian routes.
Part II Proposal T15 – Inland Waterways
The Council will protect and promote the development of inland waterways and associated freight transport infrastructure located within the Borough to maximise the opportunities they offer.
The Bridgewater Canal, in view of its historic value, will be promoted for leisure
Appendix B: - AREA: Stretford Town Centre
The Council’s vision for Stretford Town Centre is of a centre enjoying an enhanced environment, and one that is commercially vibrant, successful and safe for all the community. In partnership with landowners, businesses and others, the Council will explore opportunities for regeneration by the diversification of uses including community facilities, leisure, housing and commercial activities.
A sketch of the site.The buildings from left to right: reception area, boatyard offices and cafeteria, cyle hire and repair, sales and storage facilities. workshops for boat repairs and fit out,with retail and road frontage reception above.
If you wish to object to the proposed development of flats on the site of the boatyard perhaps you could copy this letter and send it to:
The Chief Planning Officer
Planning and Building Control
P.O.Box 96
Waterside House
Sale Waterside
Tatton Road
Sale M38 72F
LETTER OF OBJECTION
Proposed development of the former boat yard Edge lane, Stretford
Planning Applications
H/69278
Detailed planning application for redevelopment of land and erection of one part seven, part six , part five and part four storey building with undercroft car parking to provide 44 no. two bedroom apartments with vehicular access from adjacent car park and pedestrian access from adjacent access road. Associated hard and soft landscaping and boundary treatment works.
Thursday, 10 July 2008
Dear Sir/ Madam
I wish to object to the proposed redevelopment of land and erection of one part seven, part six, part five and part four storey building with undercroft car parking to provide 44 no. two bedroom apartments with vehicular access from adjacent car park and would like to raise a number of important issues concerning this application. We are greatly concerned that the proposal, if it goes ahead, will have significant detrimental effects on the environment and the local community regeneration.
Having reviewed the plans and documentation available for the above proposed application in regard to valid material planning considerations with reference to the relevant national & regional plan policy, we would point to the following policies, where certain aspects of the proposed development relevant to their scheme have been highlighted that conflict and are inconsistent with the Trafford revised unitary development plan:
Part I Policy ENV2 – Improving the Environment
The proposed building will be visually overbearing. It is an inappropriate design for this part of the Stretford. Such a large building would be totally out of keeping with the neighbouring properties architecture
Part I Policy ENV6 – Areas for Conservation
Part II Proposal ENV10 – Wildlife Corridors
Part II Proposal ENV29 – Canal Corridors
Part II Proposal T15 – Inland Waterways
We have concerns with reference to the size and nature of the proposal. In particular reference to the negative impact of the development would have upon the safe operation of inland waterway craft and canal use for the local boating community. Due to the size and nature of the proposed residential development it may possibly restrict the current access to non-towpath (safer) canal moorings and also access for local community.
Passing leisure craft may also feel unwelcome in mooring next to the proposed development due to it being a residential development due to the generated engine noise from craft to which again would adversely effect and prejudice the future use of the canal.
Although the proposed application may improve the appearance of the surrounding canal area. Community access to the Bridgwater canal would be impacted. The previous facility although redundant at present, was essential for the safety and maintenance of both the residential and leisure craft in or passing through Stretford and surrounding areas. Stretford has a proud history of creativity and innovations, directly linked to the development of the inland waterway. It was also a significant part of the diversity, heritage and the future viability of the local area.
Proposal ENV33 – Contaminated Land
Part II Proposal H8 – Affordable Housing
Part II Proposal OSR14 – Recreational Use of the Bridgewater Canal
Part II Proposal T6 – Land Use in Relation to Transport and Movement
Edge lane is already a very busy road - we would be very concerned about the safety of pedestrians, cyclists and other road users around the proposed development and the widening of the carriageway to gain access to the development. Increased/unsustainable traffic volumes on an already busy road junction/network would have an adverse effect on travel; road safety, noise, and pollution may increase congestion on a key road junction to a56. Also the noise, dust, vibration from the construction process would also impede traffic flow.
Part II Proposal D2 – Vehicle Parking
Impact proposed on the operation of the car park serving Stretford GMPTE Metro link and on the bus service linking it due to the limited number of car parking spots outlined in the proposal. Seeing that there is only one car parking space being proposed for each apartment there may be associated traffic unsupported by the proposed arrangements this may be to the detriment to the pedestrian access the public transport network.
Thus we believe that their proposal does not fit in well with the policy framework provided in the Trafford MBC Revised Unitary Development Plan and would be detrimental for the sustainable regeneration of the community of Stretford and we are writing to ask that Trafford Borough Council refuse this proposed planning application H/69278 from Mr Michael Nuttall, Peel Ports Limited Peel Dome, The Trafford Centre, Manchester, M17 8PL. As indicated within the five key priorities policy areas for Trafford 2.13 we do feel that this proposed application cannot be accepted in its current form without alteration.
In summary, whilst we recognise the need for additional development with the former Boat yard site, and indeed appreciate that this site will built upon, we feel that any such development should be that is suitable for the site and its wider location. This proposal is not suitable for this site or this location, and we trust that both Officers and Member will consider the above points in deciding that this application should be rejected and perhaps consider what alternative development may be more suitable.
I hope that both you and the Application Planning Committee, when they consider this proposed development, will take into account this information and reject the application in its current form.
Yours sincerely
Tuesday 16th September 2008
The evening meeting of the Stretford Town Partnership at which members get a free drink. The Mayor of Trafford, Councillor Stephen Adshead attends.
