After builders cleaning in Trafford

Places for Everyone, adopted in March 2024, sets Trafford a minimum of 19,077 new homes for 2022 to 2039. It allocates New Carrington for about 4,300 homes by 2039 and Timperley Wedge for about 2,500, 1,800 of them by 2039. The council's regeneration statement plans 4,000 homes in the 55 hectare Civic Quarter, including Lumina Village (639 homes opposite Lancashire Cricket Club) and 650 on the former Greater Manchester Police site. The Stretford Mall redevelopment includes about 600 homes, and Omnia, 52 homes on Lacy Street in Stretford (M32), was under way by September 2026. In Altrincham the executive agreed in October 2026 to put more than 100 homes on the car park site off Oakfield Road and Moss Lane, next to the Interchange.

For buyers and landlords that means handover cleans: a new house or flat that has never been lived in, with light dust, stickers and plaster spots. A new-build 3-bed usually takes 2 cleaners for 4 hours, £272. For developers, the crew cleans finished units only, with every trade out.

Only a skip hire company can apply for a Trafford skip permit, by emailing the One Trafford streetworks team at least two working days before the skip arrives. Each permit is £49.35 for up to 28 days, and skips are not allowed on major or traffic-sensitive roads. Scaffolding, hoardings, cranes and access platforms on the road need a permit three working days ahead: £176.40 for scaffolding and £180.26 for a hoarding, each covering 1 to 28 days, with at least £5 million of public liability cover.

For the crew's van in a residents' permit zone, the easiest answer is a visitor voucher; visitor permits cost £13.50 for 25, and Trafford is moving them to virtual vouchers that the resident activates in a PermitSmarti account for the day. Where the van has to sit outside the house, a dispensation for building works costs £18.50 per vehicle per day with three days' notice. Near the stadiums, the Gorse Hill and Old Trafford event-day schemes restrict parking on match and event days, so tell the office if your street has one. Paid parking is passed on at cost.

Trafford's conservation areas run from Bowdon, The Downs and Ashley Heath to Hale Station, South Hale, Brogden Grove, Longford, Empress, Linotype, Flixton and Dunham Town. Inside one, a house extension, a dormer window or stone cladding needs a planning application, and all work to trees must be notified to the council. Heritage Article 4 Directions cover the Linotype conservation area, parts of The Downs, and Trafford Grove and Radnor Street in Stretford, so new windows, doors, roofs or porches there are likely to need permission. On houses like these the crew cleans original glass, tiled floors and joinery gently and says on the day what will not come off.

A borough-wide Article 4 Direction means turning a family house into a small HMO needs planning permission, brought in because of University Academy 92. A larger HMO with five or more people from more than one household needs a mandatory licence: £1,012 on application for up to six bedrooms and £211 more when it is granted.