SALE Sale Advocates for Local Enhancement

How to engage

What you can do, and when

Urgent: The Regulation 19 consultation closes August 2026. Drop-in sessions run through 25 June. Act now.

Attend a drop-in session

Trafford Council is holding public drop-in sessions where you can view the proposals and speak directly with the project team.

Waterside Arts — Sup Bar & Coffee House, 2 Tatton Road, Sale M33 7EB
  • Tuesday 9 June — 10am to 11:30am
  • Friday 19 June — 4pm to 5:30pm
Sale Library — Exhibition Space, Tatton Road, Sale M33 7EB
  • Wednesday 10 June — 12 noon to 1:30pm
  • Monday 15 June — 4pm to 5:30pm
  • Thursday 25 June — 12 noon to 1:30pm

What to ask at the sessions

  1. What is the current status of the 2021 Sale Town Centre and Movement Strategy? Is it still live Council policy?
  2. What has happened to the Town Hall Plaza, Waterside Plaza, School Road transformation and Sibson Road elements?
  3. Is this junction scheme designed to be compatible with those future works, or does it foreclose them?
  4. What funding mechanism is planned for the public realm elements?
  5. When will Sale receive equivalent place-making investment to that committed in Stretford and Altrincham?

Write to the project team

Send your views by email to the project team:

Email the project team

You can write as an individual resident. You do not need to be a planning professional. What matters is that representations are received.

Make a Local Plan representation

This is the most important action you can take. The Regulation 19 consultation on the Trafford Local Plan is open until August 2026. Representations must be submitted to:

Email a Local Plan representation

A template representation is provided below. You may use this as written or adapt it. Include your name, address and postcode.

Template representation

Subject: Trafford Local Plan Regulation 19 — Representation regarding Sale Town Centre

I am writing as a resident of Sale [add your postcode] to make representations on the draft Trafford Local Plan at the Regulation 19 stage.

I note that the Trafford Central Place Profile (April 2025), prepared as part of the Local Plan evidence base, identifies as a key challenge that "reports and strategies prepared for Sale town centre have resulted in limited action to date." I support that honest assessment and ask that the Regulation 19 Local Plan addresses it with binding policy.

Specifically I request that the Local Plan:

1. Includes a specific policy commitment to deliver the public realm elements of the Sale Town Centre and Movement Strategy (2021), not as an aspiration but as a policy requirement.

2. Allocates Waterside Plaza and Town Hall Plaza as named public realm improvement sites.

3. Identifies a funded delivery mechanism for the public realm elements of the strategy.

4. Requires that the SWANI junction improvements (due 2027) are designed to be compatible with the wider public realm strategy.

Sale's residents engaged in good faith with the 2021 consultation. They deserve to see those commitments honoured in the borough's principal planning document.

[Your name]
[Your address and postcode]