The 200-year-old Salford church which could be about to transform
manchestereveningnews.co.ukPlans to convert a historic church into a complex of flats, a community centre and commercial use are under consultation with Salford planners.
The submission is for the Grade II-listed Chapel Street and Hope United Reformed Church which is more than 200 years old. Applicant Chapel Street Community Centre wants to create a ‘mixed-use’ development comprising 15 apartments, flexible commercial and business service use on the ground floor, community use with an upward extension and storage in the basement.
The building fronts onto Chapel Street, close to its junction with Bloom Street and New Bailey Street in an area known as the Chapel Wharf Neighbourhood.
A design and access statement from architect MCK Associates Ltd says the need to preserve the overall footprint of the chapel - the entrance, hall and northern vestries and basements - is to be considered within the design but potentially with ‘internal reconfiguration’. “The basement has suffered from rot and a large portion of the floor has been removed together with most of the walls/partitions leaving an open plan space,” it says. READ MORE: Brianna Ghey murder accused Boy Y will be allowed to type his evidence READ MORE: DWP confirms date £299 spring cost of living payment will start arriving in bank accounts The building was first Grade II-listed in 1980, but dates back to 1819.
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