Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Hulme Crescents: City Challenge
- Hulme Crescents
- Inner Manchester
- High Crime and theft rates
- Frequent mugging and suicides
- Small housing areas
- Families forced to live in
small cramped areas
- Decks of terraced flats stacked
on top of each other
- No gardens
- Dangerous for children
- Disease and
vermin spread
- City Challenge
- Set up in the 1990s
- Involved local communities
and authorities, plus private
companies
- Took views of local
people into
account
- Hulme received £37.5 million
- Some old Buildings retained
- Local Schools and new park built
- Traditional layout used
- Stratford Road rebuilt
- Homes designed to be energy and water efficient
- Crescents demolished in the 1990s
- Changes
- Crescents replaced with 2
storey houses with gardens
- Hulme Arch Bridge Built
- New Road infrastructure
- Birdley Fields business park
- 2,000 new homes up for sale and rent
- New Park
- Youth Centre
- Regeneration of the Princess Road
- Positive impact on people