ITV Trafford Wharf Set (2013)
In March 2009, it was confirmed that Coronation Street would stay on the current Quay Street site "for the foreseeable future". Following a change of hands at ITV management, talks between ITV and The Peel Group for the move to the Trafford Park site reopened in January 2010. In December 2010, it was announced that the proposed move was now to take place.
Construction began in September 2011 after the area next to the Imperial War Museum North was surveyed for any possible World War II bomb threats, the studios are being constructed by MACE group and construction is set to be completed by 2013, the set will be built to a greater scale than the Granada TV set and will have several changes to the structure of the street and the surrounding areas.
Despite the houses being built to be a more realistic scale than at the present site it is believed filming will still be completely studio based for the majority of interior scenes.
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