| Title: | Peel Park Quarter, Salford, UK |
| Markets: | Residential, Education |
| Client: | Graham Construction |
| Services: | Landscape architecture |
| Region: | United Kingdom |
| Team: | Gillespies, Sheppard Robson |
| Photography: | Adrian Lambert |
A new public realm setting for the University of Salford’s Peel Park Campus, a state-of-the-art student residential development, providing 1200 new residential units spread across three brick volumes.
Gillespies designed a new public realm setting around a major student residential scheme for Salford university; 1200 new residential units across three blocks. This landmark project provides new accommodation at the heart of the existing campus with strong links to neighbouring parkland. Within each accommodation cluster is a significant secure courtyard area with the hard landscaping materials supplied by Hardscape. It provides valuable spill out space from communal areas within the building. The strong lines found within the public realm design relate to the style of the new buildings and provide a dynamic setting for seating, planting and cycle stores.
The surrounding landscape was designed to create a soft “parkland” setting for the new buildings in contrast to the harder lines encountered within the courtyard areas. An innovative ha‑ha feature has been included to provide security from the adjacent park and control access into the campus; this also provides opportunities for ecological wetland style planting.
