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Slum clearance changes the face of town
10/ 3/2003
IN 1955 talks began about a new over-spill estate in Heywood to alleviate problems in inner city Manchester. Although Darnhill would not be built until nearly a decade later, this was the era of slum clearance and the start of the creation of Heywood as we know it today.
Some of Heywood's oldest and most run-down houses began to disappear under the borough's Slum Clearance Programme in the mid to late fifties.
Heady Hill was the area of Heywood initially undergoing most change, with the town council setting their stall out by inviting tenders for the erection of 150 new houses there - despite the old ones still being up and inhabited.
An entire street was marked down to be demolished, will all 39 houses on Union Street to fall - Union Street was effectively wiped off the map as a result. Properties at Bury Old Road and Heady Hill Street would also be lost to the bulldozer, with existing residents in the area being re-housed as near to the new neighbourhood as possible.
The plan was to build 400 new properties between Bury New Road and Bury Old Road, and it would take one and a half million bricks just to build the first phase of 150 homes. New roads would have to be built just for the transportation of the raw materials.
It was rapidly announced that the new Heady Hill estate would also house people from another area of the town that was to fall to the bulldozers…
In 1957 Angel Meadow became the subject of the largest single compulsory purchase order ever undertaken by Heywood Corporation. Neighbouring areas were also included in this programme of clearance and a total site of five and a half acres to be affected, along with 440 residents living in the area.
The town council announced that most of the people were to be re-housed on the new Heady Hill Estate. The speed of this massive project "will depend upon the availability of houses" it was reported in the Advertiser.
A major report compiled by the council in 1957 showed that of 8,314 permanent properties in Heywood, 1,266 were unfit for human habitation. It was hoped that within a 10-year period all of the unsuitable properties would be demolished and new communities created. Over the next 10 years they were.
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Love seeing and reading about Heywood even though I have only been back ONCE since 1986 for my aunt's funeral, (my mothers family were all Monkey Towners)
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