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Q3 2026 · As at 19 September 2026

Salford Regeneration & Investment Briefing

Funding, places and delivery.

Cover of the Q3 2026 edition
Contents of this edition

Funding, places and delivery. A briefing for the organisations bringing forward homes and regeneration across the city of Salford.

The Peel Building, University of SalfordIllustrative visualisation, AI-generated; adapted from a photograph by Ian Roberts, CC BY-SA 2.0

Dates and decisions to watch

As at 18 September 2026 Published position
Local Plan consultation Publication Salford Local Plan: Core Strategy and Allocations (part two) published 31 July 2026. Comments close at 4.30pm on Friday 25 September 2026. [5]
Local Plan submission Approval to submit expected to be sought from Full Council in November 2026, then examination by a Planning Inspector. [5]
Places for Everyone Adopted 21 March 2024 across nine GM districts. Part two of the Salford Local Plan sets the boundaries for the PfE spatial areas, including the Core Growth Area, Inner Area and Northern Area. [6]
GMCA affordable housing Good Growth Fund applications are rolling, with no fixed deadline; subject to funding and priorities. [3]
Pride in Place plans Pendleton and Peel Green are both phase-two neighbourhoods on the GOV.UK phase 2 list. National Pride in Place Plan submission milestone for phase two: 30 November 2026. The 26 February 2027 date applies only to the phase 2 expansion cohort named on 20 March 2026, which contains no Salford neighbourhood. [30,45,46]
Eccles masterplan Draft masterplan consultation closed 31 March 2026; comments under review. No publication date for the final masterplan is stated on the council or project sites. Development estimated to commence early 2028. [12,41]
Impact Fund Pride in Place Impact Fund money must be committed by 31 March 2027. [24]

Figures in this briefing cover different programmes, geographies and periods. They should not be added into a single city investment total.

The funding landscape

Up to £46 billion over ten years

Homes England and its subsidiary, the National Housing Bank, have up to £46 billion to deploy across England to 2036. These are the principal streams. [1]

The joint Investment Prospectus, published on 31 March 2026 ahead of the Bank's opening on 1 April, brings grant, land and finance into one framework. The Bank aims to attract more than £50 billion of additional private capital over the decade.

Stream Amount What it funds / who it reaches
Social and Affordable Homes Programme 2026–2036 At least £27bn outside London; £39bn nationally, including London Capital grant for social and affordable rent, shared ownership, supported housing and estate regeneration. Registered Providers, councils, housebuilders and community-led organisations, through continuous market engagement or strategic partnerships.
Housing and Infrastructure Capital Grant About £3.1bn (Homes England's share of the £5bn national pot*) Land assembly, remediation and strategic infrastructure; dedicated viability-gap support planned for later in 2026/27. Councils, developers and landowners with sites the market cannot unlock alone.
National Housing Delivery Fund (debt, equity and guarantees) Up to £16bn Loans, equity and guarantees, including funding that may be devolved to mayoral authorities. Housebuilders, Registered Providers, funds and lending partners.

*The prospectus describes the agency's share as £3.1bn, subject to final confirmation. These are programme envelopes, not a ring-fenced allocation to Salford.

Programme milestones

Date Milestone
31 March / 1 April 2026 Investment Prospectus published / National Housing Bank opens
24–25 August 2026 First wave: £9.58bn to 33 strategic partners outside London [2,44]
Later in 2026/27 Dedicated viability-gap grant planned [1]
To 2036 Ten-year programme period

Land, grant and finance can be combined around the needs of a scheme.

Grant, land and finance (products and routes)

Which support fits a scheme depends less on its size than on what is holding it up: a funding gap, a difficult site, or the tenure of the homes to be delivered. [1]

Family Product Purpose Typical user
Grant Social and Affordable Homes Programme Affordable tenures, supported housing and estate regeneration RPs, councils, developer partners
Grant Housing and Infrastructure Capital Grant Viability gaps, infrastructure, land assembly and remediation Councils, landowners, master developers
Land Homes England land Acquisition, enabling and disposal through sale, lease, development agreement or joint venture Developers of all sizes
Finance SME Accelerator Loan Site finance for smaller builders establishing a track record SME housebuilders
Finance Revolving credit facility Multi-site support alongside commercial lenders Growing builders
Finance Senior and mezzanine debt Project funding for build to rent, later living and brownfield schemes Developers and funds
Finance Corporate lending Balance-sheet finance for growth, including modern methods of construction Housebuilders
Finance Infrastructure loans Long-term finance, up to 15 years, for upfront infrastructure Developers and councils
Finance Low-interest RP loans Unlocking capital investment in social and affordable homes Registered Providers
Finance Equity Minority investment in vehicles typically delivering more than 3,000 homes Funds and partnerships
Finance Guarantees Bonds and loans to reduce institutional financing costs Funds and RPs

Two grant routes in Greater Manchester. Housing and infrastructure grant is normally expected to come first through GMCA's integrated settlement. Social and Affordable Homes Programme grant remains administered by Homes England. The National Housing Bank makes its own finance decisions while working alongside the agency.

Greater Manchester: how the regional routes fit together

For a Salford scheme, the first conversation depends on the funding gap. Homes England and GMCA have complementary roles; a regional headline figure is not a city allocation.

First-wave SAHP estimate for Greater Manchester

  • £529m · c.4,400 homes
  • MHCLG's press release of 24 August 2026 gives, in its regional funding breakdown, an estimated Strategic Partnership spend of £529m in Greater Manchester supporting c.4,400 homes. It does not give a Salford allocation. This figure is not in the Homes England strategic-partner release of 25 August 2026, which names 33 partners outside London and states no grant or homes total; its published partner table sums to £9,584.1m and 73,617 homes. [2,44]
Scheme requirement Route to establish What to resolve
Social and affordable homes Homes England's SAHP, through strategic partnership or continuous market engagement. Eligible tenure, delivery partner, grant requirement and programme timing. [1]
Land, infrastructure or abnormal costs Salford City Council and GMCA; the integrated settlement is normally the first route for housing and infrastructure grant. Why the site cannot proceed, what intervention unlocks it and the local strategic case. [1]
Additional affordable-housing support GMCA's Good Growth Fund social and affordable housing team. SAHP should be secured or actively progressing; explain the remaining gap and deliverability. [3]
Debt, equity or guarantees National Housing Bank via Homes England. Borrower or investment structure, commercial funding, security and the route to repayment. [1]

Good Growth Fund: current position. Affordable-housing applications are rolling, with no fixed deadline and subject to available funding. Most other GGF applications start through the relevant local authority. The published July transport, city-densification and innovation calls closed on 4 August; these rounds are now closed. [3]

Brownfield. Greater Manchester was allocated £81.1m from the government's Brownfield Housing Fund, with the first tranche identifying 24 schemes delivering 4,353 homes across all ten boroughs. GMCA records the fund supporting social rent homes on council land in Salford among other places; the published material does not give a single Salford total. [33]

Practical implication. Keep one scheme funding schedule that identifies each source, eligible cost, outstanding decision and condition. Ask the funders to agree which costs their contributions support and how those contributions fit together.

Regional ambitions to design for

GM's published priorities include 10,000 energy-efficient Social Rent homes by 2030. Places for Everyone, covering nine GM authorities, seeks 50,000 affordable homes by 2039, including 30,000 for social or affordable rent. These are regional ambitions across delivery routes. [21]

Who decides what (decisions and public contacts)

Funding, planning and delivery sit with different organisations. Identify the decision you need before choosing the first conversation.

  1. Homes England / National Housing Bank — Homes England takes final SAHP funding and contractual decisions. The Bank assesses its finance investments. [1,18]
  2. Greater Manchester Combined Authority — Shapes regional priorities, tenure mix and priority sites; aligns investment through the Integrated Pipeline. [3,21]
  3. Salford City Council — Local housing need, planning and council land; accountable body for neighbourhood funding. Invest Salford and the council's land and property pages are the public entry points for land enquiries. [17,34]
  4. Dérive (Salford) Ltd — The council's wholly owned housing company, with Dérive RP registered by the Regulator of Social Housing. It holds and manages council-sponsored affordable homes and is a commissioning client in its own right. [14,15,35]
  5. Neighbourhood boards — Pendleton and Brookhouse & Peel Green boards develop local plans with the community and shape investment priorities. Council accountability and national programme requirements still apply. [29,30]
  6. Scheme owner and delivery team — The RP, council or developer assembles the scheme, appoints its team and manages delivery. Establish the actual commissioning organisation. [16]

Public routes for the next conversation

Enquiry Public route
National grant / finance enquiries@homesengland.gov.uk
GMCA housing / infrastructure Good Growth Fund teams and funding guidance
Salford land / inward investment Invest Salford · Business and Investment team · salford.gov.uk land and properties [17,34]
Local Plan representations plans.consultation@salford.gov.uk (deadline 4.30pm, 25 September 2026) [5]
Eccles regeneration contact@ecclesconversation.co.uk · 0808 1688 296 · ecclestowncentre.co.uk [12]
Pride in Place involvement Salford CVS Pride in Place pages · emma.eastwood@salfordcvs.co.uk [10]
Planning advice / procurement Contact planning (salford.gov.uk) · The Chest [16]

A useful first enquiry names the site, landowner, proposed use, delivery lead, funding gap and next decision. Attach a concise programme and explain what the requested intervention changes.

Accessing programme grant: a route for smaller providers

A first-wave strategic allocation is one route into delivery. Continuous Market Engagement also gives eligible organisations a direct route to Homes England.

  • Continuous Market Engagement — Open for individual schemes and portfolios, while funding remains available. Designed to accommodate smaller partners, new entrants and complex projects. [19]
  • Strategic partnerships — Programme-level allocations support delivery at scale. The initial bidding round closed on 15 April 2026; future rounds will be announced. [18]
Route Practical fit and requirements
CME general A direct scheme bid. Establish eligible tenure, costs, delivery readiness and grant need with Homes England. [18,19]
CME portfolio Discuss the pipeline before bidding. Initial portfolios normally deliver 300–500 homes; named sites should start by 31 March 2028 and complete by 31 March 2032. [19]
Delivery partnership An eligible RP or council can work with a strategic partner under the programme's delivery-partner rules. Owning the funded homes is a different role from supplying construction services. [18,20]

Before a grant application

Organisations need Homes England Investment Partner qualification to receive grant. New partners can apply for that status alongside the funding application. Programme qualification and regulatory registration are separate steps. [19]

The bid should show how it meets local housing need and regional priorities. Greater Manchester seeks at least 60% Social Rent through SAHP, alongside supported housing, regeneration and better alternatives to temporary accommodation or costly care settings. [21]

How to prepare the discussion

Bring a site schedule, proposed tenure mix, cost plan, planning position, delivery programme and confirmation of the intended landlord. Explain what is ready now and which dependencies still need resolving.

The Crescent, SalfordIllustrative visualisation, AI-generated; adapted from a photograph by David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0

Places and programmes (city programmes)

Town-centre renewal, a £2.5bn city-centre masterplan and council-sponsored affordable housing sit at different stages. Establish the live phase and the organisation commissioning it.

Crescent Salford — up to 3,000 homes in the masterplan

Crescent Salford is a 240-acre, £2.5bn masterplan led by the English Cities Fund with Salford City Council and the University of Salford. The wider masterplan is described as delivering up to 3,000 homes, with around 800 in Adelphi Village. [7,8]

Published phases include 263 homes on the former Adelphi campus site (two build-to-rent blocks and one affordable block, construction anticipated from spring 2026), and the Farmer Norton car park site: phase one of 42 affordable three-bedroom Passivhaus houses, with a second phase of 185 apartments. [7,8]

Salford Rise, a 220-metre elevated public walkway across Frederick Road, was programmed for completion by summer 2026. It is supported by a £13.17m Levelling Up Fund grant secured in October 2021, with the English Cities Fund appointed as development manager under a development agreement with the council. [9,25,40]

Confirm which residential, infrastructure or public-realm phase is being commissioned, and by whom: ECF, the council or an RP partner.

Eccles town centre — 1,272 homes reported in the draft masterplan (not verified)

Muse was appointed in July 2025 as the council's strategic regeneration partner for Eccles, confirmed on the council's own Eccles page. The 1,272-homes figure for the draft masterplan comes from trade reporting of the March 2026 launch and is not verified against a primary source: neither the council's Eccles page nor ecclestowncentre.co.uk publishes a homes number, and the draft masterplan material on the project site gives none. The reported scheme is mostly low- and mid-rise with a small number of buildings up to 12 storeys, alongside retail, food and drink, health and wellbeing space and a flexible community hub. [11,12,41]

Phase 1 clearance — market hall, multi-storey car park and a number of retail units and derelict buildings — is recorded as complete on the council's Eccles page, which gives no completion date. Charles House on John William Street has been acquired and the council states it intends to demolish it during 2026/27; the rest of the town centre, including Church Street, Boothway and The Mall, remains open. Phase one of the community conversation closed on 19 November 2025; the second phase, on the draft masterplan, closed on 31 March 2026, and the council's page states that comments are being reviewed and taken into consideration. A date for publication of the final masterplan was not verified — neither the council's Eccles page nor ecclestowncentre.co.uk gives one, and an autumn 2026 date is not stated on either. Development is estimated to commence early 2028. [12,41]

The council was awarded £5.4m as a catalyst for the town centre through UK Government capital regeneration funding. That is enabling money, not the scheme's development funding. [12]

Ordsall / Robert Hall Street — 274 affordable homes

Salford City Council selected Seddon Construction for a c.£60m scheme of 274 homes on a ten-acre site off Robert Hall Street and West Park Street, with 144 in the first phase. Buttress Architects designed the scheme; homes are for affordable tenures and are to be held by Dérive. Reporting records the council parting company with the previously selected developer before Seddon's appointment. [13]

Check the current contract and phase position before describing the scheme as started or open to tender.

Little Hulton / Longshaw Drive — 177 homes, completed July 2026

A £38.8m scheme on a former 12-acre school site completed in July 2026: 132 houses and 45 apartments, of which 92 are affordable or social rented and 85 for private rental or open-market sale, built to Passivhaus standards. Seddon Housing Partnerships was contractor, with Pozzoni Architecture, Identity Consult and Sutcliffe; Dérive manages the affordable homes. [4]

Council land and investment opportunities

Salford publishes land and property for sale and rent, a land-ownership checker and an inward-investment offer through Invest Salford. Establish current availability, title, disposal and planning position with the council. [17,34]

Church Street, EcclesIllustrative visualisation, AI-generated; adapted from a photograph by Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0

Pride in Place: two boards, two local plans

Pendleton and Brookhouse & Peel Green are each a separate phase-two Pride in Place award of up to £20m over ten years. They are two awards of £20m, not a single £40m Salford pot, and neither board can spend in the other's boundary. The GOV.UK phase 2 place list names the two Salford neighbourhoods as "Pendleton" and "Peel Green"; the council and the board use the fuller name "Brookhouse and Peel Green". Their boards shape local priorities, with Salford CVS providing independent support to establish the boards and Salford City Council as accountable body. [10,22,23,45]

Neighbourhood Published position / next conversation
Pendleton (GOV.UK: Pendleton) Phase two. Neighbourhood board established; Jenni Smith, Chief Executive of Salford Loaves and Fishes, appointed chair following interview by an independent panel and approval by the local MP and the council. Rebecca Long-Bailey is the MP for the area. Community engagement, survey and events underway. [22,23,45]
Brookhouse & Peel Green (GOV.UK: Peel Green) Phase two. Neighbourhood board established; Jon Odukoya appointed chair with Andy Higgins as vice-chair. Michael Wheel is the MP for Worsley and Eccles. Engagement underway through Salford CVS. [22,23,45]

Each board is to bring together residents, community representatives, the local MP and councillors, engaging locally before drawing up a plan and setting investment priorities. No project call for either Salford neighbourhood is open: Salford CVS's Pride in Place page invites residents to complete a survey and join a mailing list, with community events listed as "details coming soon", and the council's community grants page carries no Pride in Place round. No board minutes or agendas for either neighbourhood board have been published on salfordcvs.co.uk or salford.gov.uk. [10,22,23,43]

Bring a project that can be delivered

  • Need, ownership and consent — Explain who benefits and how the proposal responds to residents. Identify land control, a delivery lead, consents and dependencies.
  • Capital and continuing costs — Set out works, development costs and contingency, then identify the asset owner, operating budget and maintenance responsibility.

National guidance sets a 30 November 2026 Pride in Place Plan submission milestone for phase-two areas, which is the milestone that applies to both Salford neighbourhoods. Boards must have at least eight members; at least 51% should live or work locally, and the local MP must sit on the board. Public contact routes: page 6. [29,30,45]

Local investment and project calls: different pots, different decisions

Salford's town-centre capital programmes, its neighbourhood programme and the Impact Fund operate at different scales and on different timetables. They are separate pots and should not be added together.

Town-centre and city-centre capital: published headlines

Component Published position
£5.4m Eccles town centre: UK Government capital regeneration funding awarded to the council as a catalyst for town-centre regeneration. [12]
£13.17m Salford Rise, the elevated link across Frederick Road in the Crescent: Levelling Up Fund grant secured by the council in October 2021. A published council decision records the grant as £13.170m, to be spent by March 2025, administered under a memorandum of understanding, with onward funding to the English Cities Fund of up to £13,710,933 approved in March 2022. [9,25,40]
£2.5bn Crescent Salford: the masterplan's headline development value across all phases and partners, not a public grant figure. [7,8]

Funding note: the Levelling Up Fund and Town Deals were consolidated into a single capital pot from September 2025 onwards. Check the current programme name on any live call before bidding. [26]

UK Shared Prosperity Fund

UKSPF allocations are made to local authorities by formula rather than competition, and are administered locally. No live Salford UKSPF call was found: the council's "Get funding for your business" page (last updated 1 October 2025) lists only GC Business Finance, the GM Business Growth Hub funding finder and the Department for Business and Trade finance finder, with no UKSPF round. The council's community grants page likewise carries no UKSPF call. Check those pages again before assuming a round is open. [27,34,42,43]

Salford Pride in Place Impact Fund — £1.5m

  • Salford appears in Annex A of both MHCLG grant determinations at £750,000 a year: the 2025-26 determination signed 29 September 2025 and the 2026-27 determination signed 8 April 2026. Each Annex A lists 94 local authorities at £750,000, so the £1.5m is two annual determinations of the same capital grant, not a single award. Capital improvements only. [24,47]
  • Three published themes: community spaces, public spaces, and high streets and town centres. [28]
  • Funding must be committed by 31 March 2027; uncommitted sums must be returned. [24]

Reporting indicates the target areas and projects were to be settled through discussion with MPs and local stakeholders. A published list of target wards for Salford remains not verified. Searched again on 19 September 2026: the council news site, the salford.gov.uk community grants and funding pages, and both Impact Fund grant determinations (which name authorities and amounts but no wards). No ward or area list and no council report setting one out was found. Unlike Wigan, which published five target wards, Salford had not published a ward list at the time of writing. Confirm with the council before assuming a location is eligible. [28,47]

This is not extra funding for the Pendleton or Brookhouse & Peel Green neighbourhood programmes.

Ordsall HallIllustrative visualisation, AI-generated; adapted from a photograph by Nev1, CC BY-SA 3.0

Homes, partners and local need

The council approved Good Homes in Good Places: Salford's Good Homes Strategy 2025–2030 at Cabinet on 28 May 2025, with the aim of increasing the number of high-quality, affordable and low-carbon homes. The council's own announcement records a planned pipeline of 557 new social and affordable homes for 2025/26. [48]

The published evidence records 12,134 households in housing need in the 2025 Housing Needs Assessment, an annual shortfall of 467 affordable homes, and an average of 380 new affordable homes a year over the past five years. In 2025/26, 668 homes became available through Salford Homesearch, each attracting around 136 bids. [31]

The Local Plan applies a local housing need figure of 1,370 dwellings a year, and requires at least 20% affordable housing on schemes of ten or more net additional dwellings (or 0.5ha+), with higher percentages in premium value areas and an indicative tenure split of 37.5% social rent, 37.5% affordable rent and 25% shared ownership. [32]

Dérive: the council's own delivery vehicle

Dérive (Salford) Ltd is wholly owned by Salford City Council (company number 10777127). Its subsidiary Dérive RP was approved as a registered provider by the Regulator of Social Housing on 21 April 2023 — the twelfth local authority housing subsidiary to be registered — with an initial transfer of 104 properties across three sites supported by a £6.6m council loan. [14,15,35]

The council's published position records 513 homes built by April 2026 with a further 700 in construction, 455 of them to Passivhaus standards and 26 wheelchair-accessible. [31]

Dérive's own site publishes a narrower set of figures, covering its second three-year business plan only: a £15.8m costed business plan delivering 117 homes for households in housing need across six sites or schemes, with 192 jobs created or sustained, 16 training opportunities and £930,000 of residential spending. These are the latest figures on Dérive's site and are not a whole-company total; the council's affordable housing pages carry the larger delivery numbers. [14,31]

Salford was also confirmed in July 2025 as one of ten government Vanguard Councils for housing, the only Greater Manchester authority selected. [36]

Partner / example Documented local delivery
Dérive / Longshaw Drive, Little Hulton £38.8m, 177 homes completed July 2026: 92 affordable or social rented, 85 private rent or sale, Passivhaus, Seddon Housing Partnerships as contractor. [4]
Dérive / Robert Hall Street, Ordsall 274 affordable homes, 144 in phase one, Seddon Construction selected; homes to transfer to Dérive. [13]
Salix Homes / Willohaus, Peru Street 100 apartments in Adelphi Village: 30 social rent and 70 affordable rent, Passivhaus, Buttress Architects and Eric Wright Construction; completion programmed for summer 2026. [37]
Salix Homes / Archer House and Bowman House 69 social rent homes for people aged over 55 with a new GP surgery for NHS Greater Manchester, expected complete by spring 2027. [37]
2026/27 pipeline The council records 729 units across 13 schemes, with Dérive, ForHousing, Great Places, Housing 21, MSV and Salix, mainly social and affordable rent. [31]

These are examples of local activity, not a complete provider list, procurement shortlist or evidence of a new SAHP award.

For development and asset teams

Agree tenure, accessible homes and support needs before fixing the unit mix. Bring the operator into the appraisal: nominations, management, service charges and whole-life maintenance. Keep new-supply budgets separate from existing-stock investment.

Delivery and the supply chain: from scheme assembly to appointment

The national programme supports delivery through councils, Registered Providers and developers. The local supply chain enters through their projects, procurement routes and contractor packages.

Stage Lead organisations Specialist input
01 · Site and viability Council estates, landowner, developer, RP, funders Land and planning advice, valuation, surveys and abnormal-cost assessment
02 · Enabling Council, developer, Homes England / GMCA where relevant Ground investigation, remediation, ecology, civils and utilities
03 · Funding and agreement RP, developer, public funder, lender Legal, cost advice, programme and development finance
04 · Design and consent Client team, architect, planning authority Architecture, engineering, arboriculture and technical coordination
05 · Construction Main contractor and client delivery team Groundworks, structure, roofing, M&E, scaffolding and site services
06 · Handover and operation RP asset team, council or other operator Commissioning, landscaping, compliance and maintenance

Finding the actual route to work

Salford City Council advertises its contract opportunities on The Chest, the north-west business opportunities portal; registration is free. The council's published thresholds use invitations to tender above £75,001 and requests for quotation below £75,000. A pipeline entry is a forecast; the live notice establishes the requirements and timetable. [16]

RP and developer appointments have their own routes. On Crescent Salford, for example, the commissioning client may be the English Cities Fund, the council or an RP partner depending on the phase. Confirm whether work is being commissioned directly, through a framework or by a main contractor. A funding announcement does not itself create an open invitation to tender.

Salford applies social value in procurement using the Social Value TOMs, with published guidance for suppliers on how social value is monitored through the contract. The council's published emphasis is on employment and training opportunities created during contract performance. Agree measurable delivery commitments with the commissioner rather than treating them as a separate publicity activity. [16]

The advertiser directory is not an approved-supplier list and does not replace procurement or suitability checks.

Skills and delivery capacity: build the workforce into the plan

Construction skills, training capacity and local employment should be considered while the scheme and its contracts are being assembled.

Construction training in Salford

Salford City College's City Skills campus is described as a centre of excellence for construction, covering groundworks, brickwork, plastering, painting and decorating, plumbing, electrical installation, carpentry and multi-trade skills. [38]

The college's apprenticeship service supports around 1,700 apprentices across sectors including construction and the built environment, working with over 500 employers. Build Salford is a traineeship programme for 16–24 year-old Salford residents as a route into a construction apprenticeship, with over 20 industry partners. [39]

  1. Forecast — Trades, numbers and start dates
  2. Agree — Training, supervision and delivery partners
  3. Evidence — Starts, qualifications and sustained work

A practical workforce brief for a live scheme

Agree early What to record
Demand and timing Map likely labour needs to the programme: enabling works, structure, services, finishes and handover.
Employer and supervision Name the employing organisation, site supervisor and training partner. Allow time for recruitment and induction.
Learning and progression Identify the relevant qualification, practical experience and route into continuing work.
Evidence of delivery Agree how starts, completions, qualifications and employment outcomes will be recorded by the contract owner.

Suggested briefing checklist for clients and contractors. Agree the actual commitments through the scheme's procurement and contract process.

Connect training with community benefit

Use the college's employer routes alongside the council's social value TOMs reporting, with named responsibilities and outcomes that can be evidenced through the contract. [16,39]

  • Apprenticeships and employer partnerships: Salford City College · apprenticeships.salfordcc.ac.uk
  • Construction provision: City Skills · cityskills.salfordcc.ac.uk

Sources

Evidence and source notes

Research checked on 18 September 2026. Numbered references link to primary sources; public enquiry routes are on page 6.

  1. Homes England / National Housing Bank, Investment Prospectus 2026, 31 March 2026 (pp13, 29, 32–44). source
  2. Homes England, strategic partners confirmed for the Social and Affordable Homes Programme, 25 August 2026 (33 partners outside London; no grant or homes total stated). source
  3. GMCA, Good Growth Fund: current funding opportunities and application routes. source
  4. Place North West, "Salford completes £39m Little Hulton homes". source
  5. Salford City Council, Publication Salford Local Plan: Core Strategy and Allocations. source
  6. Salford City Council, Places for Everyone. source
  7. UKREiiF, "ECF advances major residential plans in Salford as part of £2.5bn Crescent Salford regeneration". source
  8. Place North West, "First phase of £2.5bn Salford masterplan comes forward". source
  9. Salford City Council, Salford Rise. source
  10. Salford CVS, Pride in Place in Salford. source
  11. Place North West, "Scale of Eccles housing ambition revealed as 1,270-home masterplan emerges". source
  12. Salford City Council, Eccles regeneration. source · ecclestowncentre.co.uk
  13. Place North West, "Seddon picked for £60m Ordsall resi". source
  14. Dérive Salford, About us. source
  15. Place North West, "Salford's housing vehicle confirmed as RP". source
  16. Salford City Council, Supplying the council / how to tender. source
  17. Salford City Council, Land and property for sale and rent. source
  18. Homes England, Social and Affordable Homes Programme (SAHP) 2026 to 2036: eligibility, routes and funding decisions. source
  19. Homes England, SAHP 2026 to 2036: bid for funding using the CME route (Continuous Market Engagement). source
  20. Homes England, SAHP 2026 to 2036: bid for funding as a strategic partnership (delivery partners and requirements). source
  21. Homes England, SAHP 2026 to 2036: strategic priorities in established mayoral strategic authority areas (Greater Manchester). source
  22. Salford Now, "Two appointed to help steer £40m investment in Salford neighbourhoods", 24 June 2026. source
  23. Salford City Council news, "Pride in Place Neighbourhood Boards welcome new Chair members". source
  24. MHCLG, Pride in Place Impact Fund: grant determinations 2025 to 2026, and methodology note. source
  25. Salford City Council democracy, Decision: Levelling Up Fund — Salford Rise. source
  26. House of Commons Library, Local growth funds briefing (CBP-9460). source
  27. MHCLG, UK Shared Prosperity Fund prospectus. source
  28. Salford City Council news / I Love Manchester, Salford £1.5m Pride in Place Impact Fund allocation and themes. source
  29. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme delivery guidance: boards and accountability. source
  30. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme prospectus, updated 1 September 2026: plan milestones. source
  31. Salford City Council, Delivering affordable housing (Housing Needs Assessment 2025, Dérive delivery, 2026/27 pipeline). source
  32. Salford City Council, Local Plan Chapter 11: Housing (local housing need and affordable housing policy). source
  33. GMCA, "£41m boost for brownfield development will see a further 2,700 homes built" and Brownfield Housing Fund allocations. source
  34. Invest Salford / Salford City Council business and inward investment. source · source
  35. Companies House, Dérive (Salford) Ltd, company number 10777127. source
  36. Salford City Council news, "Salford confirmed as Government Vanguard Council for Housing". source
  37. Salix Homes, Willohaus / Peru Street and Archer House and Bowman House updates. source
  38. Salford City College, City Skills. source
  39. Salford City College, Apprenticeships and Build Salford. source
  40. Salford City Council democracy, Decision: Crescent — Site Business Plan and Development Agreement for Salford Rise (records the £13.170m levelling up grant). source
  41. Eccles Town Centre (Salford City Council and Muse), draft masterplan and community conversation. source
  42. Salford City Council, Get funding for your business. source
  43. Salford City Council, Applying for funds for your group. source
  44. MHCLG / Homes England, "Historic council housebuilding comeback to help families into secure homes", published 24 August 2026 — regional funding breakdown giving Greater Manchester £529m estimated Strategic Partnership spend supporting c.4,400 homes. source
  45. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme phase 2 place selection methodology note (England list of 146 neighbourhoods; Salford: Pendleton and Peel Green). source
  46. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme phase 2 expansion place selection methodology note, 20 March 2026 (40 English neighbourhoods across 28 authorities; no Salford neighbourhood). source
  47. MHCLG, Pride in Place Impact Fund grant determinations 2026 to 2027 (Annex A; 94 authorities at £750,000; Salford listed; signed 8 April 2026). source
  48. Salford City Council news, "Five year housing strategy approved" (Good Homes in Good Places 2025–2030; 557-home 2025/26 pipeline). source

Research update 19 September 2026

  • Salford Rise Levelling Up Fund value verified. The council's Salford Rise page and the published decision record for the Crescent Site Business Plan and Development Agreement both give £13.17m, secured October 2021, to be spent by March 2025, with onward funding to the English Cities Fund of up to £13,710,933 approved in March 2022. [9,25,40]
  • Eccles masterplan status corrected. The council's Eccles page and ecclestowncentre.co.uk record the draft-masterplan consultation closing 31 March 2026 with comments under review. Neither states an autumn 2026 date for the final masterplan, so that expectation has been removed; early 2028 for development start is still published. [12,41]
  • Dérive delivery figures added from Dérive's own site: £15.8m second three-year business plan, 117 homes, six sites, 192 jobs, 16 training opportunities, £930,000 residential spending. These sit alongside, not instead of, the council's 513-homes figure. [14,31]
  • No live UKSPF call. The council's business funding page (last updated 1 October 2025) and its community grants page list no UKSPF round. [42,43]
  • No open Pride in Place project call. Salford CVS is running a survey and mailing list with events "details coming soon"; no board minutes or agendas are published for either neighbourhood board. [10,43]
  • Still open: Impact Fund target wards or areas — no council report, news page or ward list found; treat eligibility as unconfirmed. Also still open: a published date for the final Eccles masterplan, and neighbourhood board papers.

Verification 19 Sep 2026

  • £529m / c.4,400 homes re-sourced. The figure is not in the Homes England strategic-partner release of 25 August 2026. It comes from MHCLG's press release of 24 August 2026, "Historic council housebuilding comeback to help families into secure homes", in its regional funding breakdown for Established Mayoral Strategic Authorities. New source [44]; the SAHP first-wave wording now also records that the 25 August release names 33 partners outside London and states no grant or homes total, with a partner table summing to £9,584.1m and 73,617 homes.
  • Pride in Place cohorts checked against all three GOV.UK lists. Both Salford neighbourhoods are phase two. The GOV.UK phase 2 England list names them "Pendleton" and "Peel Green" (the council uses "Brookhouse and Peel Green"). No Salford neighbourhood is in phase 1 or in the phase 2 expansion named 20 March 2026, so the 26 February 2027 expansion deadline does not apply here; 30 November 2026 does. New sources [45,46].
  • Impact Fund upgraded from press to primary. Salford is listed in Annex A of both grant determinations at £750,000 a year (2025-26 signed 29 September 2025; 2026-27 signed 8 April 2026). Each Annex A lists 94 local authorities. The text now states that the £1.5m is two annual determinations of the same grant, not a single award. New source [47].
  • £40m unsummed. The Pendleton and Peel Green awards are now described as two separate £20m phase-two awards with separate boundaries and boards, not a single £40m Salford pot.
  • Eccles homes number downgraded. 1,272 is trade reporting of the March 2026 draft-masterplan launch. Neither the council's Eccles page nor ecclestowncentre.co.uk publishes a homes figure, so the number is now marked "not verified". Phase 1 clearance is recorded as complete on the council page with no date given, so the "December 2025" completion date has been removed; phase one of the community conversation closing 19 November 2025 and the intention to demolish Charles House during 2026/27 are added from the council page.
  • Chairs confirmed from the council's own release, with Jenni Smith's role (Chief Executive, Salford Loaves and Fishes) and the two constituency MPs added.
  • Housing strategy citation corrected. The Good Homes in Good Places Cabinet approval was cited to a Place North West article about Little Hulton; it now cites the council's own news page, which also gives the 557-home 2025/26 pipeline. New source [48].
  • Still open after a further search: Impact Fund target wards (council news site, community grants and business funding pages, and both grant determinations all checked; determinations name authorities and amounts but no wards); final Eccles masterplan publication date; neighbourhood board minutes and agendas.

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