Developers Capital&Centric are planning a community of design-led suburban townhouses on a cluster of brownfield sites in Bolton town centre.
Split across several plots, Neighbourhood Bolton will see the Manchester-based team masterplan the area around the town’s train and bus stations.
They’ll bring forward plans for the first few areas totalling 6.2 acres on and around Bradshawgate, alleviating pressure on greenfield sites.
It is their second collaboration with Bolton Council, with work on the apartment-led Farnworth Green already underway.
It’s aimed for the Neighbourhood Bolton to be a catalyst that kick-starts wider regeneration of the whole area, including surrounding sites.
This investment is a huge vote of confidence in Bolton town centre, and in the council’s regeneration plans.
Tim Heatley, co-founder of Capital&Centric, said:
“Bolton deserves sustained investment. The latest levelling up news was obviously disappointing. But we believe in Bolton’s future and just days later, we’re here announcing our second local project to both unlock investment and bring about positive change.
“Loads of new build homes are a pastiche of the past and designed to maintain the status quo. But there’s got to be an alternative. We want to re-write the rules on suburban living and deliver homes with a design-led edge on brownfield sites that many write off as being too difficult.
“Neighbourhood Bolton will be our first such community of its kind, one that hopefully provides an antidote to what’s on today’s market. It’ll show how we can take key, underused sites in really well-connected towns like Bolton and write a new chapter for town centre living.”
Bolton Council Leader, Cllr Martyn Cox, said:
“This investment is a huge vote of confidence in Bolton town centre, and in the council’s regeneration plans. As shopping habits change, we are working to bring in a mixture of residential, leisure and hospitality alongside the retail offer.
“Not only will Neighbourhood Bolton deliver much-needed homes on brownfield sites, but it will play a vital role in making our town centre a more vibrant place to live, work and visit.
"It will also complement the existing regeneration projects in the town centre and beyond.”