Land at Richmond Street in Hyde, Tameside Council, c Google Earth

Tameside Council's plot of land off Richmond Street in Hyde is one of four that will be designated for disposal soon. Credit: Google Earth

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

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Exactly where is the land near Marsden close AUL that is not a swamp.

By Anonymous

Devastating news .. where is the infrastructure more deprivation in already deprived areas ….

By Anonymous

Protect our green spaces.

By Anonymous

I though the Free Market was supposed to solve all economic, commercial and social problems, including enough houses. It turns out that money rules. No money, no house. So the nasty awful useless democratic state has to “intervene” in the market. And get slagged off, for doing do. As a democratic politician, you can not win.

By Anonymous

The picture is of Richmond St, Ashton.

By Just saying

The residents near to Corrie primary school will not be standing for that.Its right next to a quiet cemetery ,woodland and already packed with cats and nobody wants housing crammed into there.We will be setting up a total opposition and petition against this.

By Anonymous

Will the infrastructure be expanded in these areas ie doctors, dentists and schools.Doctors and dental appointments are already a nightmare !!

By Ann E

Droylsden Cemetary? Seriously? Good grief I’m sure there are recent burials there, disgusting thing to do, have you contacted the families with loved ones there. Horrendous

By Janet Breeze

Sell all the schools sports grounds, why not? Children should sit at desks and get ready for life of office work; and not run and around and play, that is kids stuff.

By Anonymous

It still won’t provide enough homes. The waiting list is astronomical. Every week I check the list to find only retirement properties, what hope is there for families? There are private rentals out there, but families can’t afford them at £1000 rent to live in a questionable area in a house with damp with probably no garden. Something needs to be done. I do not want to lose green space, but houses need to be created or rents need to be controlled. Tameside cannot continue as it is.

By Anonymous

I have lived on Capesthorne Walk for nearly 40years, I do not want to see anything built in front of my property, this is open land, full of wild life with foxes and badgers in the area, and the field is used every day by the local children and dog walkers.

By Lynne Latchford

Seriuosly! The small pockets of green areas that are left that many people have enjoyed for years being destroyed!! Ecoligists should be encouraging more wildlife not letting authorities make way for more concrete. Make the area into a small wood instead for all to enjoy…. Plant some trees! Tameside council, Do you have no shame? Leave the fields alone on Capesthorne walk! Who do you intend to house in these homes?

By Anonymous

Land next to corrie primary is a vital green space for local children and residents, giving a space to play football for kids, walking with dogs or simply picnic. Development of new homes will have a tremendous impact on the traffic which as it is now is horrendous with the school traffic. I would like to strongly oppose to this Development as it is not unsused or neglected land, this green space is impartial part of our community.

By Jagoda

More cramped housing taking up our green space.

By Anonymous

Why can’t they build on brown areas. I thought the ground near Corrie primary was for the cemetery overflow in the future.

By Anonymous

There is already limitied school places and green area for children to play when you take more from them and they are bored you then risk more challenging behaviours

By Keighley Millward

Stop trying the ram homes onto odd bits of green land which is healthy for the environment and for people to see green spaces, walk dogs abs kids play. Haughton Green is bursting with over population of cars especially, not enough school, dentist and drs places. Leave us alone

By Jackie Slater

We hardly have much greenery where we can see our children play,not to mention the traffic on this estate is already horrendous,in the mornings and evenings.

By Lisa Buxton

There is too much traffic in haughton green and nowhere for children to play, the field behind corrie school needs to stay a field

By Kath matley

After May 2026 there could be a significant change in local Councils and if long standing councillors get replaced future developments will probably be reviewed.

By Denton resident

Full support we need houses

By Anonymous

This not good for local residents, there is not enough schools, doctors, dentists within the tameside areas for all this housing. It was cause more chaos to traffic especially i and out of Haughton Green which bad most days. Why are talking away green spaces and arrears that are valuable to kids? Affordable homes aren’t a thing rental prices are astronomical. Tameside is an absolute shambles.

By Anonymous

I fully dont agree with building of new homes that takes green space for our kids in Denton. Now they have no space whete they can play. Instead of this they need build new playground close to Greswell Primary School and Corrie Primary School in Denton. Please consider my objections and suggestions for the benefit of our children. Thank you.

By Nicola Smyths

The suggested area near to Corrie school will bring untold amounts of congestion to an already busy area. While I appreciate that there is need for housing the disruption this development would bring would be at the detriment of residents who have lived here for many years. We are already limited to parking bays and lack of space for the children to access to safe play places.

By Barbara Brerton

As I have said before, our children play on this land, there is nowhere safe for them to go! They’re no youth clubs, after school activities that families can afford. The extra traffic on the already overcrowded roads, how is the infrastructure suppose to cope with all this? Affordable homes you say, who for, immigrants, homeless, when our own family members cannot be allowed flats that are already here because of such people? Since labour came into government it is all so far fetched and beyond belief,!

By Angela Fletcher

The land on Circular road is used by children to play on and also used by dog walkers.It is the only area available for the children to play on and close to their homes and it is also right next to a school and nursery and any developments put here would overlook the nursery playing grounds of very young children whose parents that I have spoken too are seriously unhappy and totally against this.
The other area -land to the east of Corrie Primary school is directly opposite a peaceful cemetery and quiet area which all the local residents are completely against.The parking is also terrible in both these areas already with nowhere for residents to park as it is on top of the school populus dropping and picking up children and visitors to the cemetery and for funerals there.Its totally ridiculous and horrendous in planning to put houses in both these areas 1) for child safety overlooking a nursery grounds and the cemetery too.
I will be contacting all local residents and families of the school to lodge their complaints and voice against all of this.Wevdo not want any houses building on these sites and taking away more of our green spaces for the children and privacy,dignity,peace and quiet of a cemetery where we all go to visit our loved ones who have passed

By Dawn Maskreyi

Absolutely against this. This will be a nightmare and too close to schools. We don’t know who will be housed in the new builds but have a fair idea. Parents will not feel safe to allow their children to visit the park.
Exiting Haughton Green is a complete nightmare as it is. As it is people have to add an extra 30 – 40 minutes to their journey to work because of the traffic in the mornings. You obviously haven’t taken into account what it’s going to be like with all the extra traffic as most homes have 2 cars. Typical labour take up every little bit of green to make a few £. Who’s initial idea was this and who’s getting a nice back hander to push it through.

By Elizabeth Carr

There is no infrastructure for ANY of the proposed house builds, Greenbelt/Greenland is there for a reason, stopping flooding for one of them. Over building will cause massive and serious problems in the future including dentists, schools, and roads, Please dont say treat us like idiots and say that the system can cope with it, Look at the state of the hospital and waiting times for dentists and doctors. Tameside council cant keep the grids/drains clear at the moment so what are they going when bigger issues arise. Maybe they will build a wall around the problem and then ignore if whilst be paid a too large a wage to belittle us. Why cant we utilise the brown buildings, or any building that is left empty for extra housing instead of building mass houses on a land that is needed for the community and nature.

By Kirsten

Such a bad idea, the house will be overlooking Corrie nursery which is a definite no! You don’t know what sort of people will be moving into these houses! It’s also a green space for the local kids to play on, and parking is a big problem round here as it is so adding more houses will cause problems and not a bright idea having thousands of cars all driving and even all parked up the paths when there will be children going to school and also parents with prams that will struggle to even get through as we do most of the time already! It just wouldn’t work and cause to much hassle for the residents who already live there.

By Anonymous

The land at the back of Corrie primary school is used all the time by children. When it rains the amount of water that this field soaks up is so important. Absolutely disgusting all these plans to build houses all around. Leave our Green spaces alone

By Melissa Mellor

Victoria Street/Talbot Rd Hyde: You have got to be kidding. This part of Hyde has had MORE than its share of new builds, The former ICI building, Carrfield top of Cartwright Street that is still on going, the huge area behind Hyde Park, The old Christy Towel site, The former Grammar School, and now you want to build another 105 houses not a mile away from the former print works which is currently being cleared for 122 homes. Victoria Street is already becoming a rat run for Matley Lane for those wanting to avoid the motorway traffic to Mottram etc.
And not to mention over 2000 homes planned for Godley Green?
Get a grip Tameside, Hyde is already becoming a concrete jungle, and I and guessing the people within Tameside who approve these plans don’t even live in this area, its bad enough now trying to get a GP appointment without another 300 plus houses to be built in the same area. Enough is enough for this part of Hyde.

By Wendy M

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