Yes to flats plan means pub is bulldozed... twice
A SALFORD pub is to be bulldozed for the second time.
The Broadway Inn at The Quays will be demolished to make way for apartments.
It will mark the end of a boozer being on the site for 140 years.
The current former Holt’s house opened on December 5, 1980, but has been empty since 2010.
It replaced the original Broadway Inn, on the same site - on the corner of Broadway and West Clowes Street - which opened in 1878.
The first pub ended up as the only building left standing in a barren late 1970s landscape after all the terraced houses around were swept away in slum clearance.
In its heyday, it was a popular dockers’ retreat.
According to ‘Pubs Manchester,’ the first licensee was Moses Bayley.
The next few included Richard Gibson and William Whiteley.
It became a Holt’s house in 1886 and the brewery extended it to include the house next door a couple of years later.
Harry Nichols kept the Broadway of Inn until the 1940s, followed by George Bramley and John Hayes in the 1950s and Fred McCormick in the 1960s. At a meeting of Salford’s planning panel, councillors approved a proposal by Liquid Property Ltd to demolish the pub and build 24 apartments. They will be set back from Broadway, behind a landscaped garden. Approval was given despite nine objections from residents. They said the proposed building represented ‘the further over-development of MediaCity/Salford Quays and the An objector to the planning application further proliferation of apartments in this area.’
“There is no need for apartments here, family housing should be provided,” one objector added.
They objected to the planned development’s ‘excessive scale’ and raised concerns about the risk to children who regularly play in the street on nearby Isaac Close - where visitors and residents of the new apartments would park.
A council report reads: “While the application represents the loss of an existing social facility, it is clear that this facility is surplus to local needs.
“On this basis, and given the loss of the facility has previously been permitted, it is considered that the principle of the development is acceptable.”