New homes plan to revive ‘embarrassing' city estate

THE regeneration of an estate in the shadow of the The Etihad stadium which residents have said 'looks embarrassing' looks like it will finally move up a gear.

- ETHAN DAVIES

The Grey Mare Lane estate in Beswick was built in the 1960s by Manchester City Council, but has been subject to stalled regeneration efforts over the last few years.

Most recently, politicians had to go back to the drawing board on the project's blueprint after housing association One Manchester was deemed 'not up to the task' of delivering the original scheme in full.

Much of the difficulties revolved around retrofitting homes.

Initially, One Manchester offered to retrofit homes of both their own tenants and private homeowners who bought their property under the government right-to-buy programme.