THREE sites in Hattersley have been allocated almost £4 million of Government money to unlock brownfield sites for development.
And the three schemes planned for Hare Hill Road, Hattersley Road East and the site of the Harehill Tavern will provide a total of 226 new homes.
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) has been allocated £97 million from the Government’s Brownfield Housing Fund which may provide 8,300 homes over a five-year period.
And of that money, more than £41m will be invested in developing 21 sites across Greater Manchester in the second phase which will deliver 2,720 homes, half of which will be affordable housing.
The largest of the three sites is Hattersley Central on Hattersley Road East which has been allocated £3.22m for the 161-home development.
Harehill MMC, which is on Hare Hill Road, receives £540,000 for the 27 homes while £100,000 is earmarked for the Harehill Tavern site which will have 38 houses.
The allocation of the £41m for 21 brownfield sites was approved at a meeting of the GMCA on Friday, Match 26.
The funding is the second tranche of an initial £81m allocated to Greater Manchester from the Government’s Brownfield Housing Fund to unlock brownfield sites for development.
An additional tranche of £15.8m was secured by the GMCA in February of this year and allocated to deliver a further 1,325 homes, taking Greater Manchester’s total Brownfield Housing Fund allocation to £97m which could provide 8,363 new homes.
Twenty-four schemes were identified to benefit from the first £37.2m tranche of the five-year funding allocation, delivering 4,318 homes across sites in all 10 boroughs.
All brownfield sites identified for development were assessed on their viability and how they support the principles of the Greater Manchester Strategy.
The announcement supports the ambition of Greater Manchester leaders to take a brownfield first approach to development.
Leaders set out this approach as part of the previous Greater Manchester Spatial Framework, and the Places for Everyone plan will also have a brownfield first preference towards development to meet the Government’s housing targets while minimising the impact on the greenbelt.
Mayor Paul Dennett, City Mayor of Salford and GMCA lead for housing, planning and homelessness, said: “We have always said that we want to bring forward the most sustainable brownfield areas across our city-region for development, and with the Brownfield Housing Fund we’re doing exactly that.
“As we continue to prioritise our response to the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in our communities, towns and cities, we also need to take action at the same time to build a better and fairer future for all of our residents.
“This is in addition to seeing ongoing development as an important part of our economic recovery plan from Covid-19, creating and sustaining jobs, traineeships and apprenticeships within Greater Manchester’s construction industry.
“This funding will allow us to regenerate brownfield sites, support districts in working towards meeting national government targets, and deliver just shy of 2,500 good quality affordable homes, helping us to address the under-supply of housing and meet growing need.
“However, while we welcome this contribution, it remains the case that affordability as defined by the Government does not always translate into affordability for our residents, and further funding will be needed to deliver genuinely affordable homes across Greater Manchester to tackle the housing and homelessness crisis we face.”
So now you are going to take away the last remaining public house on the estate. There is nothing left on this estate as it is. You have closed the children’s leisure centre. The parks are a mess or closed. Its just like it was when I first moved here 55 years ago. Hattersley is nothing more than a dumping ground for people. No wonder the kids are misbehaving, they have nothing to do. Nor will the grown ups, if you take away the last standing pub.
Long live the Tav
Y don’t u just turn it into a mosque and mess the estate up completely Al least we can still meet up and stay sane and mite even get some new shoes ✅👍 if the pub goes hattersley goes 😭😭
I think it’s disgraceful to take a pub thats been on the estate for god knows how long. The only pub I might add hang your heads in shame you money grabbing back handing councillor’s (swear word omitted through fear of post not being given permission)no consideration for people who are already living on an over crowded estate with no more amenities for the already vast number of new build houses utterly disgraceful and hopefully the good people of Hattersley will stick two fingers up to you greedy lot
The people of hattersley will not allow the hare hill tavern site to become another set of houses, we need our social/community site, its not just a public house, its a family, its a place you can go with a problem and someone will have the answer ,its a charity/ funding place, its ours and you can keep your hands off it
What are they doing to Hattersley???? All these new builds, but what about the environment, the amenities, the people who already live here, and have seen so much change (none of it good!!) All dow to lining the fat cat’s pocket, with NO regard to others
You want to build more houses on here. theres already too many houses u keep taking all the green, there’s no high schools, no more shops and there’s only one last pub on here u turned the last pub into a nursery, u greedy lot u cut trees down which should of been left for the environment, n where u nocked down shops and the four in hand and the community centre that’s been an eyr sore for some time now and that hub is crap.
Shameside at its finest! Yes Shameside.. You want to build “affordable housing? For what for who?? Who’s going to want to buy houses on an estate with NOTHING!!!!!… Yes nothing for the children nothing for the adults NOTHING!! How about doing the repairs on the houses that are already here crumbling around the people that already live here for a start!!! How about putting the people that live here first… Haha not a chance all about the money underhanded and low totally ruined a beautiful estate out of greed FACT
My son has lived in the Harehill tavern for 16 years he’s a good landlord and is well respected on the estate the pub is family run and all this hype is absolutely gutting him as Nobody in any capacity has even informed him of any of this …. only through the media.,the owners of the pub assure us they haven’t spoken to anyone about these matters what happen s to him if he has to leave he will be unemployed and homeless are the council going to give him a house and a job ????? Don’t think so.
So if it’s sold off to the fat cats … it will be empty for 5 years fenced off … eyesore. So why don’t onward home concentrate on getting their exsisting property’s in order. As all I ever seem to hear about is damp house s. Broken down boilers for weeks on end flats with broken doors ,empty houses for months on end without tenants Playgrounds that are locked up Rats everywhere. Even checking on Tameside planning applications there isn’t anything .Onward homes bought the freehold in 2018 but leasehold still has 43 years on the lease hold. Moral is Pub will be around for some time !
Tameside would sell the soul waste of time couldn’t care less about the people on Hattersley Shame on them and all local councillors
With all the homeworking now being encouraged post covid, and Hattersley only being 15mins on the train to central Manchester, I suspect that half of these homes will be bought by moneyed types eager to get out of Manchester. The other half will have undeserving riff-raff Manchester overspill (sorry, “vulnerable people”) dumped in.
It could be worse however, we could end up being “culturally enriched” and totally sold down sh*t creek.