Bentry Capital has paid £12m for the Irwell Gardens website, with plans for an £80m (gross building worth) scheme.
There’s consented making plans permission for section one to ship 50 three- and four-bedroom townhouses, with gardens fronting the River Irwell. Segment two envisages an extra 50 properties and 100 residences, with the making plans utility for this to be submitted subsequent yr.
Building shall be led via Bentry’s in-house development arm, Mellior, with a development price of round £35m.
Segment one will start development within the first quarter of 2026, the developer mentioned, with an 18-month development programme.

Mellior may also be instrumental in making use of for making plans permission for section two, which can have a two-year development programme as soon as greenlit.
The Irwell Gardens acquisition follows finishing touch of Bentry’s £29m Willow Courtroom scheme of 119 condominium, additionally in Salford, and in addition constructed via Mellior. The overall number of houses has now been launched on the market, with native owner-occupiers because of transfer into their new houses in January.
David Cain, co-founder and leader building officer of Bentry Capital, mentioned: “Mellior Crew is excellently positioned to guide the development of Irwell Gardens and we sit up for beginning on website within the new yr. Regardless of the broader marketplace demanding situations, we have now delivered top rate high quality houses at close by Willow Courtroom and this depended on, skilled group shall be put into motion on Irwell Gardens to deliver this imaginative and prescient to lifestyles.”
As up to now reported, Bentry/Mellior even have two industrial to residential conversions in London’s Islington and Hammersmith and a newbuild scheme in Liverpool town centre.
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