HMR homes ready to be transformed

HOUSES left empty due to the collapse of Housing Market Renewal (HMR) funding are set to be turned into family homes.

Oldham Council and Great Places Housing say 33 derelict properties in Cambridge Street, Lynn Street and Durham Street are in the process of being developed.

The news coincides with a campaign to make use of empty homes across Greater Manchester and is another step in continuing regeneration in Werneth.

The council secured Empty Homes Programme Funding and work started in April with the first homes due to be finished next month. The scheme will be completed by March, 2014.

Great Places is now converting 33 two-up two-down homes into 21 properties with two, three and four bedrooms, which will be let to local families.

The council and local residents feared the homes would lie empty when regeneration projects were hit by the end of finding in 2011.