Labour's candidate in Worsley and Eccles has said it is "wrong" to use the green belt to build "luxury" homes.
The scheme is located on green belt land being released under a Greater Manchester-wide housing programme - Places for Everyone - which Labour-run Salford council was the first in the region to adopt despite Conservative opposition. "But when you look at these developments in particular, they are not affordable homes, they are not first-time-buyer homes, they're not starter homes, they are going to do very little, if not nothing, to tackle that crisis.
The Worsley and Eccles constituency covers a number of semi-rural towns and villages in the borough of Salford such as Boothstown, as well as districts from the Astley Mosley Common area which falls under the borough of Wigan. Alongside Peel's housing developments, Salford council is planning to build 600 new homes for social rent, through its own development-arm Dérive.