New homes plan for former magistrates court site

PIC Homes will deliver the 84-home redevelopment of the town’s former Magistrates’ court, a scheme that has been threatening to come forward since Trafford Council acquired the site in 2018.

via planning documents

The Council has applied for permission to build 84 properties, including 21 ‘affordable’ homes, on the one-hectare site off Ashton Lane and Washway Road.

The application has been validated to deliver accommodation providing additional ground floor living space for future residents and has been submitted to support the delivery of new, high quality energy efficient homes in the borough.

The plans for the homes include the addition of solar panels to both front and rear elevations with battery storage to reduce future energy bills for residents with the use of renewable energy. This supports the Council’s corporate priorities of addressing the climate crisis and providing a thriving economy and homes for all.

The development will include a new public realm and the planting of new trees, both bringing social, economic and environmental benefits to an urban setting with excellent transport links.

We reported last year that Trafford Council had chosen to change contractors after work had begun on-site and locals have regularly asked when work was going to continue.

Cllr Liz Patel, Trafford Council’s Executive Member for Economy and Regeneration, said: “The Sale Magistrates’ court housing development is a flagship scheme and meets the Council’s policy of building more housing on brownfield sites, with 25 per cent affordable homes.

“The amended application focuses on the delivery of energy-efficient homes in response to the demand highlighted in the recent Housing Needs Assessment. There is a terrible shortage of housing nationally, and we are pushing ahead and building as many new and affordable homes as we can across the borough.”

Local developer PIC Homes is delivering the scheme. PIC will work alongside an experienced team of Trafford-based contractors.

A spokesperson for PIC Homes, owned by Armaan Chohan and David Strettle said “We are really pleased to be working with Trafford Council to develop this site into much-needed family homes. 

“Armaan lived in Sale for 15 years and is a former Ashton-on-Mersey School pupil, so it feels special to be able to give back to the local area.”