Plan to build over Salford riverside footpath dropped after outcry

Developer amends Ralli Quays plans after criticism that right of way was being ‘sacrificed for private gain’

A developer has scrapped plans to divert a 300-year-old riverside footpath through a hotel lobby after public outcry that a right of way was being “stolen” and “sacrificed for private gain”.

Salford council came under huge public pressure last year after councillors granted planning permission to Legal & General (L&G) to close a towpath by the River Irwell to make way for an office complex and a 16-storey, 260-bed hotel.