Creating Great Neighbourhoods
Over the period 2007-2012 Rochdale Council and Rochdale
Boroughwide Housing are working together to invest up to £9,500,000
to improve the environments on the borough’s council estates in a
project named “Creating Great Neighbourhoods”.
Through this project we are making our estates safer and more
secure, more attractive and better places to live. This is being
achieved through a variety of environmental projects. On the one
hand there are the “Quick Wins” or smaller scale schemes that
target specific problems that a relatively small investment might
be able to tackle, whilst on the other hand there are the “Priority
Estates” where much larger scale works are being undertaken to
address larger scale problems.
Quick Wins.
Priority
Estates.
Progress of Priority Estates
Work.
Quick Wins
The Quick Wins schemes are those schemes that can be undertaken
relatively quickly anywhere in the borough to address particular
problems that tenants, councillors, officers, etc have brought to
our attention. Each Township i.e. Rochdale North, Rochdale South,
Pennies, Middleton & Heywood has a budget allocated to it based
on the number of council properties located there and such schemes
are approved by RBH’s Area Panels which meet quarterly.
The maximum value of a Quick Win is £35,000 though many such
schemes have cost only a few hundred pounds to carry out. Examples
of the types of schemes that fall under the banner of Quick Wins
include hard and soft landscaping, parking schemes, lighting
upgrades, fencing renewals or refurbishments, providing or
replacing security doors, carrying out basic highway safety
projects e.g. erecting bollards and replacing items of play
equipment. To date over 300 Quick Wins schemes have been carried
out in close consultation with affected tenants and residents,
councillors and officers.
Below are “before and after” photos
of two of the Quick Wins
The above pictures are of upgraded
front garden areas to some flats on Meadow View, Cutgate whilst the
ones below show an improved parking facility on Holborn Gardens,
Brimrod.
Priority Estates
The other element of the Creating Great Neighbourhood Project is
the work we carry out to the so-called Priority Estates which were
determined in 2006 by a detailed Environmental Audit that was
undertaken by Rochdale Council’s Implementation Planning Team and
approved by both the Council and RBH. This audit analysed each of
the borough’s estates by looking at such things as street lighting,
footpaths, signage, open space, parking, house curtilages and
fencing. A score was then given to each estate and the estates
which were deemed to have the worst environments scored the most
marks.
Each Township was then allocated a budget and the estates which
had the highest scores in terms of the poor quality of their
environment was designated a Priority Estate. There are around four
Priority Estates per Township Area and these are listed at the end
together with any completed works.
The Environmental Steering Group, which is made up of five
tenant representatives (one from each Township) is responsible for
the implementation and the monitoring of the Priority Estates work.
These representatives are Joan Turner (Rochdale North), Debbie Lord
(Rochdale South), Keith Barker (Pennines), Sharon Worsley
(Middleton) and Mary Kershaw (Heywood).
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| Rochdale South Representative |
Rochdale North Representative |
Pennies Representative |
| Debbie Lord |
Joan Turner |
Keith Barker |
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| Middleton Representative |
Acting Heywood Representative |
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| Sharon Worsley |
Bryn Hackley |
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Progress of Priority Estates Works
Click on the links below to view the most recent progress
reports i.e. Quarter 3 - September 2010
Progress Summary:
| TOWNSHIP/ ESTATE |
WORKS |
COMPLETED (YES/ NO/ ONGOING) |
| Rochdale North |
| Falinge Hill |
Courtyard upgrades, fencing, security doors & internal
lobbies |
Yes |
| Lower Falinge |
Soft landscaping, replacement of some concrete stairwells with
steel ones, removal of some walkways, upgrade of play
facilities |
Ongoing |
| Holstein Avenue |
Front fencing |
Yes |
| Spotland |
To be finalised |
Ongoing |
| Hamer |
Hamer
Works Completion Report |
Yes |
| Rochdale South |
| Kirklee |
Kirklee Works
Completion Report |
Yes |
| Longhill |
Longhill Works
Completion Report.
Longhill Customer Feedback Report |
Yes |
| Channing Street |
Channing Street Customer Feedback Report |
Yes |
| Chesham |
To be finalised |
|
| Pennines |
| Pennine View |
Pennine
View Works Completion Report |
Yes |
| Bramhall Close |
Parking improvements, soft landscaping |
Yes |
| Bishop Street |
Bishop Tree Works Completion
Report |
Yes |
| Holt |
To be finalised |
Ongoing |
| Stansfield |
To be finalised |
Ongoing |
| Heywood |
| Heap Bridge |
Front and rear fencing, soft landscaping |
Yes |
| Heady Hill |
Heady
Hill Works Completion Report |
Yes |
| Hopwood |
Courtyard refurbishments, some fencing, hard and soft
landscaping |
Ongoing |
| Pot Hall |
To be finalised |
No |
| Middleton |
| Hollin |
Fencing refurbishment, parking, re-designing the communal areas
and fencing around some of the flats |
Ongoing |
| Baytree |
Baytree Completion
Report |
Yes |
| Middleton Junction |
To be finalised |
Ongoing |
| Brookside |
To be finalised |
Ongoing |
Below are “before and after” photos
of some Priority Estates Work
The above pictures show the new
front boundary treatment on Kirklee Road and the ones below show an
upgraded courtyard at Century Gardens, Falinge Hill.
For further details of the
environmental improvement schemes please contact either your local
housing office or Paul Dockerty, the Environmental Improvement
Programme Co-ordinator on (01706) 516650. email.
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