Stalled housing plan is salvaged
11 June 2010
House builders have now moved onto a derelict factory site after RENEW and its partners stepped in to rescue a scheme when plans by a house building firm failed to get under way.
Work on the housing project began in April at the former factory site of Collins and Aikman, Lower Milehouse. It is now being transformed into a mixed housing development.
RENEW 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.
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.
