The McCabe family’s Scarborough Group International has unveiled plans for Middlewood Locks, a new residential and commercial development located at the western gateway to Manchester’s Central Business District.

The McCabe family’s Scarborough Group International has unveiled plans for Middlewood Locks, a new residential and commercial development located at the western gateway to Manchester’s Central Business District.

Scarborough received planning consent in March 2015 from Salford City Council to deliver a new mixed-use complex of around 2,000 new homes and up to 750,000 sq ft (70,000 m2) of commercial space.

Middlewood Locks, which has a gross development value of over £700 mln (€980 mln), was created by a joint venture of Scarborough, Hong Kong-listed real estate developer Top Spring International Holdings and Singapore-listed property development and investment Group Metro Holdings.

The company is now working on a detailed planning application for the first phase which will comprise 550 homes and some 29,000 sq ft of commercial space. The application is planned to be submitted in Q3 2015 with a planning decision expected in Q4 2015.

Scarborough has appointed Knight Frank, WHR and LSH as lettings agents for the commercial part of the development and JLL has been hired on the residential investment side.

Lee Savage, development director of Scarborough, said: 'Middlewood Locks will be a first-class, mixed-use community in one of the UK’s most exciting new areas. The development is situated in what will be a new business destination for the city as well as a sought-after residential neighbourhood due to its proximity to Manchester city centre, MediaCity UK and the impact of other wider regeneration activities that are taking place in the Salford area.'