Housing project gets under way
20 May 2010
Work is now under way on a housing project at a derelict former factory site. Land at the former Collins and Aikman site, Lower Milehouse, is being transformed into a mixed housing development.
RENEW North Staffordshire is working with partners Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council and Aspire Housing.
Half of the 80 new homes in phase one will be for rent, with 32 proposed for shared ownership and eight to be sold at the normal market rate. Builders moved on to the site in April, 2010.
Regeneration partners stepped in to salvage the scheme late last year after plans by a house building firm failed to get under way.
The project is the second major regeneration project which is helping to transform the Lower Milehouse area following the completion of the award winning Mill Rise Extra Care complex and a linked NHS North Staffordshire health centre.
