SEVEN hundred homes will be built in Worsley under plans unveiled last week.

Some 400 homes will be built just south of the East Lancashire Road near to the link road with the M61 and another 300 will be built next to the Royal Horticultural Society site east of Boothstown.

The plans are included in the Spatial Framework plan for Greater Manchester, redrafted since 2016 by mayor Andy Burnham’s team.

The 400 homes at Hazelhurst Farm, off the A580, are part of a slightly scaled down plan. At least half of the homes will be classed as ‘affordable’ with 37.5pc social rented, 37.5pc affordable rented and 25pc shared ownership among those.

Worsley Woods would also be protected, while new allotments would be created and land to accommodate additional primary school provision.

The allocation for 300 homes next to the RHS Garden Bridgewater site – between the canal and Leigh Road – is listed as one of the few areas in Greater Manchester that be used to deliver ‘very high value housing in an extremely attractive environment’. 

The documents also say that the scheme will provide an affordable housing scheme equivalent to at least 50pc of the dwellings on the site, ‘with some of this directed towards off-site provision’. It is also planning to create new green belt to protect Worsley Green. The plan includes a new neighbourhood play area and new allotment plots unless suitable alternative provision can be made nearby. Walking and cycling networks are also planned.

Salford will take 32,680 new homes before 2037.