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them a spacious upstairs and comfortable downstairs living area. Also, every apartment has outside space, which is rather unusual. “The residential aspect is Code 3 BREEAM. The external
cladding for the mews houses is redbrick and timber, and we’ve used red-screened cladding board inset with the brickwork to add colour.” LPC Living marketing manager Scott Neal adds: “There’s a
lot of coloured render and the architecture is very modern – like our neighbouring residential developments. We used different materials to create interest, whether it’s panels of render or a material that’s iridescent, reflecting differently as the light changes. The supermarket has a distinctive bright yellow fire escape staircase.” Russells co-ordinated with Anglo Holt to minimise disrup-
tion to the neighbourhood and to the busy A5063 Trafford Road alongside the site. Bounded by four roads in a residential area, it also threw up design challenges to conceal as much as possible of the eventual supermarket servicing and the number of vehicles that would be on site. Russells partnered with LPC in a community engagement
programme to keep locals fully up-to-date with developments. Working with Primrose Hill (a new-build primary school that is part of the wider Ordsall regeneration programme) and St Joseph’s Primary, the team provided health and safety briefings in the schools and on site, and contributed material for lessons.
Opposite: Radclyffe Park overview; Townhouses
Top: Morrisons viewed from Trafford Road with Rockpanel detailing Left: Russells Consrtuction health and safety manager Roger Fitton (left) and LPC Living’s Scott Neal with children from St Joseph’s Primary School in Ordsall
© Phil Tragen Neal reports that it was not difficult to get retail tenants on
board even in these recessionary times. “We had a failed 1960s district shopping centre in the heart of Ordsall, which suffered from a massive lack of investment and it wasn’t a place people would go to by choice. “The shops had fallen into a sorry state, but there was a need
for retail facilities for Ordsall and Salford Quays. For the num- ber of businesses and the amount of people living there, there was a shocking lack of day-to-day shops. “There was a lot of support for retail and Morrisons could see that. It fitted with their strategy for how they wanted to expand
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