Life in Salford 35 • November 2021 5
Buile Hill Mansion plans unveiled Plans to bring historic Buile Hill Mansion back into use will be showcased to the public in December. Proposals for the Grade II listed mansion will see it brought back to life as a community and ceremonies venue. Downstairs a café and toilets will sit alongside community and heritage exhibition space and a function room. Salford’s Register Office will move from the Civic Centre in Swinton into the first and second floors to register births, marriages and deaths and provide a unique venue for weddings, civil partnerships, renewing vows and baby naming and citizenship ceremonies and associated celebrations. Flexible space will also be available for offices and meeting rooms, as well as community use. New external ramps and an internal lift will be sensitively added to make the building fully accessible and a new car park on part of the depot site will serve the mansion, Buile Hill Park banqueting suite and the park itself. Uses for the remainder of the depot site are being explored. Salford City Council and the Buile Hill Mansion Association have worked together on the plans which will be submitted for planning permission early in 2022. Once approved, work is expected to start on site later in the year. City Mayor Paul Dennett said: “I made a commitment during the elections in May 2021 to bring Buile Hill Mansion back into sustainable use and I’m delighted that we can now reveal the plans to do just that.” Jenni Anne-Smith from the Buile Hill Mansion Association, which was formed in 2018 to support re-opening the mansion, said: “We are so excited that the plans are underway to restore the building especially as they include all the elements the community asked for through previous consultations.”
You can view and comment on the proposals by Friday 24 December via: • Salford City Council’s website at www.salford.gov.uk/buile-hill-mansion • Commonplace at https://builehillmansion.commonplace.is • The Buile Hill Mansion Association Facebook page at www.facebook.com/groups/171606253691611/ • Claremont, Weaste and Seedley Community Committee on 7 December, 6.30pm to 8pm via Microsoft Teams. Please email CWNMTeam@salford.gov.uk to request the meeting link to attend. • Public drop-in sessions at Buile Hill banqueting suite next to the mansion on: Thursday 9 December 2021, 2pm to 7pm Sunday 12 December 2021, 10am to 4pm Thursday 16 December 2021, 2pm to 7pm City Mayor Paul Dennett and members of Buile Hill Mansion Association.
