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The New Bolton Woods team have been making good progress over the last six months. Following the granting of planning consent for Phase 1 of the scheme a year ago, the main focus has been to get the first homes on site. We are pleased to say that this is now progressing well as is evident from all the activity on the site. Our delivery partners for the first 46 houses are Skipton Homes and these will all be fully built before the end of this year.

The Housing Forum has released a report based on a series of seminars and new case studies of major housing schemes. The nine case studies show that the UK can now build excellent large housing schemes, but only where there is ongoing support from the public sector. Furthermore neither the scale or pace match up to what is required. Hence the Housing Forum is suggesting ways of boosting local leadership, and the three qualities of Ambition, Brokerage and Continuity that seem to underlie successful schemes.

On Saturday URBED and Hulme Community Garden Centre successfully hosted an open workshop to gain ideas and understanding from the locals. The group where asked what they would like to see within the new building and presented their thoughts using plasticine models and drawings. URBED would like to thank everyone who came and made the event function brilliantly. 

An important mile stone along the journey has finally arrived, the first home owners are having the retrofit work done. A year since the initial house assessments the improvement works are taking place. The people at Carbon Co-Op are busy blogging the story away which is being kept up to date on a daily bases.

HCGC and URBED are taking over a Work for Change unit for the afternoon on Old Birley Street, Hulme, opposite the Garden Centre! The team will be running a community workshop and is inviting the general public to pop in to give their views to generate ideas. 

Unit 2, 53 Old Birley, Hulm, Manchester M15 51RF