Tameside aims to clear path for 485 affordable homes

The local authority has lined up 13 sites in Denton, Droylsden, Hyde, Mottram and Ashton-under-Lyne for disposal to registered providers in a bid to see hundreds of affordable and social homes delivered.

Tameside Council’s executive cabinet voted yesterday to open discussions regarding the plots’ future with RPs, who will soon be invited to declare their interest in the sites, along with what they would want to deliver on the land.

Crucially, RPs will also be able to share what they would require from the council to ensure delivery – whether that’s land value assumptions, enabling support, or the use of commuted sums. Tameside has just under £250,000 from Section 106 agreements that could be utilised for this purpose.

Before that can happen, however, Tameside will create a site prospectus that outlines the council’s ambitions as to what tenure, type, and number of homes they would like to see on each plot of land. It will also include any known site constraints.

Altogether, the sites total 27 acres and could see the delivery of 485 homes. Nine of the 13 sites were already lined up for disposal, with the remaining four to be assigned that status post-meeting.

You can find the list of sites below, alongside their individual size and indicative capacity numbers.

Already declared surplus

• Denton Festival Hall in Denton – 15 homes
• Droylsden Cemetery in Droylsden – .6 acres, nine homes
• Former Longdendale Rec Centre in Mottram – 1.2 acres, 16 homes
• Land at Ashton Hill Lane, New Street, and Market Street in Droylsden – 1 acre, 28 homes
• Land at Bennett Street in Hyde – 3.5 acres, 98 homes
• Land at Bennett Street and Arnside Drive in Hyde – 2.4 acres, 49 homes
• Land at Victoria Street and Talbot Road in Hyde – 7.5 acres, 105 homes
• Land at Marsden Close in Ashton-under-Lyne – .9 acres, 13 homes
• Ward Street in Hyde – .3 acres, 10 homes

To be declared surplus

• Richmond Street and Seaton Mews in Hyde – .5 acres, 7 homes. Apartments. Open space.
• Capesthorne Walk and Circular Road in Denton – 4.7 acres, 67 homes. Former sports pitches.
• Land adjacent to Greswell Primary School in Denton – 2.7 acres, 39 homes
• Land to the east of Corrie Primary School in Denton – 2 acres, 29 homes