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The £50 million Radclyffe Park scheme is in a parkside loca-
tion that could hardly be more strategic, with its proximity to Salford Quays and Manchester city centre, and is expected to create more than 500 jobs. Its 4,700 sq m Morrisons supermar- ket opened in late November, to be followed by a new high street with 11 shops, 357 parking spaces, excellent public transport links, a 156-bed Travelodge hotel and 114 new homes. Plans are being developed to open a health centre within the
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The Travelodge hotel and Morrisons supermarket are key elements in Radclyffe Park, whose high-profile neighbours are marked in the aerial picture
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any London-based BBC staff are reluctant to uproot when their jobs move to MediaCityUK near Manchester, but those who go will find themselves in
the buzzing Salford Quays area, handy for the Lowry arts centre, Manchester United’s stadium, the northern branch of the Imperial War museum and the shops of the Trafford Centre. Just down the road are brand-new local shops and affordable
accommodation, where Salford City Council has encouraged developer LPC Living’s £150 million regeneration of the Ordsall area. Along with a new primary school, nearly 500 mod- ern affordable homes and improvements to parks and open spaces, a mixed development with shops, a hotel, townhouses and apartments has recently been completed.
development in 2012, designed to meet an Excellent BREEAM standard, ensuring energy efficiency and creating a good indoor environment for patients and staff. The hotel was construction contractor Anglo Holt’s 53rd
UK project for Travelodge and its third in Greater Manchester, and marked a change of plan for the site. Responding to market conditions, LPC Living obtained permission to replace its approved eight-storey block of apartments with a seven-storey hotel, and placed greater emphasis on family housing in the remaining residential units. Five construction companies pitched for the contract to build
the retail and housing parts of the development and Trafford- based Russells Construction emerged as the winner. When the development started in November 2010, it pre-
sented a number of challenges: not least the variety of projects being constructed simultaneously on the 1.6-hectare site. Russells appointed a project management team to oversee
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