The Vision

  • Create new high-quality family housing structured on a regular grid street pattern
  • Improve pedestrian connections and neighbourhood uses of the Medlock Valley Park System
  • Undertake extensive landscape improvements along Ashton New Road, Ashton Old Road and Great Ancoats Street
  • Create a clear hierarchy of roads and streets to improve access to the valley and surrounding areas
  • Improve pedestrian connections to Beswick and Holt Town to access new school facilities
  • Create pedestrian connections with the Holt Town Metrolink and the Pollard Street stations along with a Metrolink station developed on the Ashton Old Road as part of the potential Marple Metrolink line

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Lower Medlock Valley Introduction

The Vision

Progress so far

Documents and Reports