Urmston centre to get makeover with new floral displays and benches

Aims are to create a safer environment for pedestrians, with more seating and planting on Flixton Road, Hilton Avenue and Crofts Bank Road, offering places to enjoy the surroundings and new, vibrant colour and greenery.   

The work, to be paid for with Local Authority Flexible Grant funding, will start this spring. It follows the approval of the Urmston Plan by the Council’s Executive Committee last month. 

Plans include creating a narrower entrance to Hilton Avenue to allow people to walk more easily and safely between the library and other areas, as well as two new disabled parking bays.

On Crofts Bank Road, new planters stocked with seasonal displays will be added next to Sainsbury’s and extra benches with arms will be installed between the bus stops. 

Old posts for hanging baskets will be removed and more benches and planters added near the junction of Flixton Road and Railway Road.

On Flixton Road between the station entrance and bus stop, unnecessary posts, bollards, an unused cycle rack, old seating and dilapidated wooden fence will be removed and new benches with arms introduced.

A new, single LED lantern on a pole and three planters will be positioned, offering colourful floral displays. The clock, notice board and remaining cycle storage will be repainted.

Areas around the cycle storage and to the side of the barber’s will have new asphalt and paving slabs are set to be repurposed, in place of some missing slabs. The pavement around the station will be re-levelled.

Finally, weeding and pressure washing will help to create a clean, colourful and fully refreshed area.

Cllr Liz Patel, Trafford Council’s Executive Member for Economy and Regeneration, said: 

“We’re delighted to be able to bring these improvements to Urmston to refresh the town centre environment. 

“The town has a lively, thriving shopping and business scene with local, independent traders alongside high street names and we want to do all we can to support its appeal as a place to visit and spend time in.”