Away from the historic village, one of the more significant current construction stories connected to Worsley sits at its western edge, on green belt farmland. Outline planning permission for a housing scheme was granted by Salford’s planning panel in March 2025, after the application drew substantial local opposition — reported as up to 386 letters of objection covering green belt loss, congestion on Hazelhurst Road and the A580, flood risk, and pressure on local schools and GP surgeries. Planning officers recommended approval regardless, and the panel granted consent.

Since then, Taylor Wimpey Manchester has submitted a reserved matters application — covering the detailed appearance, landscaping, layout, and scale of 176 homes — giving the first clear picture of what the scheme will actually look like if it proceeds to construction. As of the most recent information available, this application had been submitted but construction had not yet begun; the scheme is a step closer to being built, not a live construction site.

The site itself contains no listed buildings, though it sits close to two heritage assets: Hazelhurst Hall Farmhouse, a Grade II listed 18th-century farmhouse around 50 metres to the south, and St Mary’s RC Cemetery, a locally listed interwar cemetery around 100 metres to the north. A planning assessment found both already screened from the development site by existing buildings, roads, and woodland.

If and when this scheme moves into construction, it represents a different kind of concrete demand from Worsley’s historic core — larger-volume, phased residential foundation and slab work spread across multiple plots, rather than the smaller, more heritage-sensitive jobs typical of the conservation areas.