Tameside readies 400-home Stalybridge plan
The council has identified an opportunity to provide a “regeneration catalyst” in the west of the town following a development feasibility study.
Tameside Council looked into the possibilities of delivering homes across eight sites owned by the authority and the Greater Manchester Pension Fund and is now preparing to bring the Stalybridge West opportunity to market.
The 400-home scheme, which could also include some commercial space, is to be discussed at Tameside’s place scrutiny committee next week. A document prepared ahead of the meeting states that a development prospectus advertising the scheme will be prepared.
“This will be followed by completion of planning and delivery strategies and undertaking of a soft market test around the development opportunity,” the documents state.
Tameside Council has bid for £35m from the government’s Levelling Up Fund.
If approved, £11m of that bid would go towards enabling work to pave the way for Stalybridge West. This would include remediating several brownfield sites, unlocking them for future residential development and “facilitating further private sector investment”., the documents state.
Denton is the other town in line to benefit from levelling up cash, around £12m is earmarked for public realm improvements.
In Ashton, Tameside is progressing plans for St Petersfield, a £100m business district with the potential to see 170,000 sq ft of workspace created.
Great news, this is exactly the kind of density that should be encouraged in a town centre and near a train station. Other councils should take note – people want proper homes in good, accessible locations – not cardboard houses on a formerly green field.
By Anonymous
Anon is entirely wrong, people want family homes with space to raise a family, not tiny rabbit hutch apartments.
By notanon
This part of Greater Manchester is going to be an exciting place to be in a not too distant future.
By Anonymous
@notanon Nowhere did Anon say nor imply that he or she wanted rabbit hutch apartments. Proper homes to the layman tend to mean somewhere with decent space.
By SW
Who says families can’t be raised in apartments? Lots of European families live in apartments – and many of them score better education stats than UK children, who are forced to live on monotonous, uninspiring suburban housing estates.
By Anonymous
Grim overdevelopment
By YS
I hope theyre not all flats. Where are families supposed to live.
Theres too many flats in Stalybridge as it is.
The achievable rents and sales prices will not cover the land and build costs.
This will require far too much government funding to subsidise and taxpayers are paying for it!
By Anonymous