Housing revamp back on in Werneth

Oldham Cabinet
WORK has started on affordable family homes in an area blighted by an axed regeneration programme.

Empty homes in south Werneth will be transformed into 20 properties, leased by Great Places Housing Group ownership.

The social housing group, which acquired the homes in Cambridge, Durham, Lynn and Suffolk streets from Oldham Council last year, said keys could be handed to new tenants by August.

The properties were originally bought by the local authority as part of the multi-million Housing Market Renewal programme to transform parts of Werneth, Derker and Freehold with new and refurbished housing. But the funding was controversially axed by the Government in 2010, leaving residents living next to boarded-up houses.