Developers have submitted plans to build nearly 700 homes on a former golf course in Salford. Housebuilders Bellway and Countryside acquired the old Brackley Golf Course in Little Hulton for £40m last year.
The housebuilders have now submitted initial proposals to construct 345 homes each on the 66-acre site. The two companies agreed to buy the land for £39.3m in November last year. But, in December the developers renegotiated the terms of the sale.
Salford council, which jointly owned the site off the M61, will still pocket £18.5m – the biggest single capital receipt in its history. A squatter had to removed from the site late last year to progress with the scheme.
