TIMELINES have been produced for several redevelopment projects and masterplans in Tameside’s towns.
And the cost of many schemes has also been revealed, including the £1.8 million being invested in buying back what is now Ashton-under-Lyne’s former bus station.
Tameside Council will see several schemes going on across the borough, with Levelling Up Funding for Ashton, Stalybridge and Denton, as well as the publicised masterplan for Hyde.
Many people have questioned when work will actually take place or be completed in the case of Stalybridge’s Civic Hall.
But a new all-encompassing document has put dates to many, as well as costs.
In Ashton – which has seen a Mayoral Development Zone that will take in St Petersfield, the town centre and Ashton Moss – launched, it is hoped a prospectus can be approve by June.
But the document for the meeting of the place and external relations scrutiny panel on Tuesday, March 19 provides more clarity.
Buying the old bus station and grade one remediation, described elsewhere as a risk assessment, which can then facilitate future development will cost a total of £1.8 million.
And the £3.1 million scheme to bring the town hall back into use should see workers on site in May with a completion date of December outlined.
New office space should also be created inside Ashton Old Baths by September, with external work starting in May and ending next March.
In Stalybridge, the contentious work to repair the roof of the Civic Hall is now priced at £2.9 million and is hoped to be complete by July.
A year’s work costing £1.8 million on the nearby library and Astley Cheetham Art Gallery is scheduled to begin in October while it is hoped £6.1 million of public realm works can be done by March 2026.
Hyde’s masterplan, which would see Clarendon Square Shopping Centre demolished and replaced, as well as other huge projects, is likely to start taking effect from April with the removal of outdoor market stalls and a new provision installed by June.
It is also one of 10 places across the country to take part in an accelerator partnership programme with aims of reducing the number of vacant town centre units and improving the environment.
While in Hattersley, a planning decision on phase two of its district centre is expected in April, with hopes work will start in August and finish in December 2025.
£4 million Is being earmarked for public realm infrastructure, such as playgrounds and green space, with a new Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA) and improvements to Waterside Clough being done in the next year.
Detailed plans for the Levelling Up Funding awarded to Denton should be drawn up in the next three months.
And Droylsden – described as ‘strategically well positioned’ and an ‘opportunity for change’ – is likely to see a draft masterplan for its town centre produced in April and a definitive version approved in November.
Tameside council should hang their heads in shame. The people of Tameside have got a better idea of what is required to improve the 7 towns and the first thing is to get rid of a useless council. The current ‘fixed’ council have approved, without consent, or agreement with residents, to increase buildings (from the government demands, who do not recognise requirements of individual areas) and follow the Westminster commitments, but the council are not experienced, skilled or knowledgeable in what should be followed. This council needs to be voted OUT and replaced by residents who want to retrieve what this current council has destroyed. For goodness sake (and the future of this area, ignore Political Parties and put your vote where it will do significant good in changing what has been forced on this area for so long. Personally, I will vote Reform because I have no faith in Tory and will NEVER vote Labour when they have suggestions such as Starmer and the ‘fishwife’ as a solution (and I know more than most as to why I say this).
Hey. Reform. Lol. I bet you’re over 50.
…So you’re voting for the party who’s sole aim is to sort immigration to deal with local issues? You need to reexamine why the towns have failed locally. Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stretford, Middleton are all fairly local and all have town centres which needed modernisation because they’re failing. None of those are in Tameside. The cause is towns haven’t changed with how we live and they couldn’t afford to due to Tory austerity and also due to Brexit. The EU regional development fund did more than the Tories ever did for our region and if you don’t believe me, look up how much of a scam “levelling up” is. Tameside Council have done their best with stretched budgets and a lack of businesses which aren’t manufacturing. We need more modernisation and offices, like the St Petersfield development. If you think voting reform will make any difference, you might as well not complain about the sh1t hitting the fan whilst simultaneously throwing it at the fan. Get more informed.
The Hyde ‘masterplan’. That in itself is pretty funny and shows how highly they think of their abilities. It remains to be seen how ‘master’ their plan is.
Droylsden materplan will be hurried through in the weeks before local elections. This council has failed it’s town so badly. I have never voted tory in my life and despise what they stand for but something has to change. Droylsden has been a labour seat for 90 years they don’t need to win votes here and the tories needn’t bother so nothing changes we’ll get a masterpal and still be looking at it in 5 years wondering when it’s going to start. SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE! this council have no interest in progressing this or any of its other towns not named ashton use you vote wisely people
Tameside Council are absolutely useless; simple as that. Everywhere you look resembles a bomb site, with litter and all kinds of mess.
The Labour Party are only interested in themselves, and always will be.
All this ‘ redevelopment work ‘ is mainly designed to improve their own work places. For what good they do, they could operate from porta cabins costing far less. Getting rid of all the lazy, freeloading local councillors would serve the community well too.
All local Labour want is your vote to keep their useless backsides in office. It’s high time residents had the guts to vote these narcissistic jokers out, and terminate their ride on the Gravy Train.
Too little too late droylsden town centre is an absolute disgrace. They will produce a masterplan but have zero budget cause its all been pumped into ashton. Hate the tories but Labour have to go in tameside can’t think of 1 change they have made in the 12 years I’ve lived in droylsden not one!!!!!
Gee, I wonder why we’ve had no change in a northern deprived area with a southern biased Tory government imposing austerity. Hmmmmm. Yes. It must be Labours fault. That makes complete sense.
Hmmm ok so local councils should take no accountability for the state of the towns it serves????? Guess there is zero point in having it then
40 years + of total miss mangement, schemes costing ridiculous sums of money that would never work, putting up a tent on Ashton outside market that had millions spent on it not to long ago, historical buildings left to fall into total disrepair, tearing the features out of towns, not to mention the new main road into Stalybridge being reduced in width and a couple of planters to tack your eye away for the abomination they have created not a tree in site to help with pollution. I could go on but I think you are getting my drift.
Come May the Labour Lemmings will follow each other and keep Tamside Mafia Coincil in place , for God’s sake wake up and smell the Coffee put yous X a where but Lanour.
There has been significant investment in ashton under labour council tory government. Labour have chosen to let tamesides other towns go to ruin is more to do with how funds are allocated locally which is why people have had enough. Agree the tories have decimated this country and can’t wait to see the back of them but labour council (in their role) have failed much of tameside