Green light for Capital & Centric’s Digital Village

MANCHESTER property developer Capital & Centric has won planning approval for its £6m speculative business park opposite Ordsall Hall in Salford.

The 40,000 sq ft development, dubbed Digital Village, will have 12 units aimed at digital and creative businesses.

The five-acre site, close to the Soapworks redevelopment of the former Colgate-Palmolive factory, is owned by the council and is currently empty. It sits oposite the grade I-listed Ordsall Hall.

Drawings for the AEW-designed scheme show it will be divided by a public space running from Ordsall Lane to the Ship Canal where there will be a mooring for a planned water taxi service between Manchester and Salford Quays.

Capital & Centric director Adam Higgins said: “This is great news for Salford as it builds on the success of Media City and Soapworks in creating a real commercial heart for the city and our development will create more than 150 new jobs.  The design is fantastic and complements the adjacent Grade 1 Listed Ordsall Hall and River Irwell.”