{"id":22137,"date":"2018-11-27T08:31:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T08:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=22137"},"modified":"2023-10-10T11:23:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T10:23:37","slug":"former-football-ground-in-greater-manchester-goes-up-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/11\/27\/former-football-ground-in-greater-manchester-goes-up-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Former football ground in Greater Manchester goes up for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

The former football ground of\u00a0<\/b>Flixton<\/b>\u00a0FC in Greater Manchester has gone on sale<\/b>\u00a0for \u00a31.25 million<\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The brownfield site of six acres backs on to the River Irwell in a residential area close to the Trafford Centre and Trafford General Hospital, just 28 minutes\u2019 drive from central Manchester.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018Once in a lifetime opportunity\u2019<\/h4>\n

Appointed selling agent,\u00a0<\/i>Hyde Estates\u00a0<\/i>& Letting Agents<\/i>\u00a0describes the sale as \u2018a once in a lifetime and unique investment or development (subject to the usual planning) opportunity\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Club house opened by Sir Alex Ferguson<\/h4>\n

Comprising of a football pitch, freehold buildings and leasehold land\u00a0with 70 years remaining, the site includes a comparatively new 7,000\u00a0sq.ft\u00a0club house, costing \u00a3500,000 which was opened by\u00a0Sir Alex Ferguson\u00a0in 1995.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The new club house is laid out over\u00a0two floors and includes\u00a0a large function room\u00a0with\u00a0a balcony overlooking\u00a0the pitch, a bar, meeting rooms and an apartment.\u00a0 Also included on site is an old club house of 2,000\u00a0sq.ft\u00a0and changing rooms occupying 500 square feet.\u00a0 There is a car park, spectator stands and a former grass training pitch area.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Free from business rates<\/h4>\n

The site is exempt from paying business rates because it is currently a football club.\u00a0 Trafford Council are considering whether to extend the existing lease or sell the freehold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Until 2012, the ground was home to local football team\u00a0<\/b>Flixton<\/i><\/b>\u00a0FC<\/i><\/b>, who had been there since 1960.\u00a0 The ground has previously also been used by\u00a0<\/b>Manchester City Ladies<\/i><\/b>\u00a0and local Sunday league side\u00a0<\/b>Republic of\u00a0<\/i><\/b>Flixton<\/i><\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/b>Northwich Victoria FC<\/i><\/b>.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Excellent transport links<\/h4>\n

The site is within easy reach of\u00a0local amenities\u00a0with excellent transport links;\u00a0four\u00a0national rail stations\u00a0are nearby,\u00a0motorway\u00a0access is\u00a0provided by\u00a0the M60 and M62; Salford \u2013 home to The Lowry and\u00a0MediaCityUK\u00a0is 18 minutes by car\u00a0and\u00a045 minutes by train.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The former football ground of\u00a0Flixton\u00a0FC in Greater Manchester has gone on sale\u00a0for \u00a31.25 million.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The brownfield site of six acres backs on to the River Irwell in a residential area close to the Trafford Centre and Trafford General Hospital, just 28 minutes\u2019 drive from central Manchester.\u00a0 \u2018Once in a lifetime opportunity\u2019 Appointed selling agent,\u00a0Hyde Estates\u00a0&… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":22138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,349],"tags":[362,77],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6096038,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22137\/revisions\/6096038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}