CASE STUDY 32


Estate of independence


ONLY DEMOLITION AND REDEVELOPMENT WOULD PROVIDE A LONG-TERM SOLUTION


Before newly-independent housing association Salix Homes got involved, other contenders had been put off by the scale of demolition needed at a major estate renovation in Salford. Terry McBride of Salix explains to Jack Wooler how they achieved vital community buy-in in their first new build.


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he Poets Estate in Swinton, Salford, was in desperate need of regeneration – historic mining in the area had led to severe structural defects and subsidence in many properties, and only demolition and redevelopment would provide a long-term solution.


The investment needed was substantial


however – £22m – and with public money scarce, the estate, made up of 1930s semis and terraces, remained untouched for decades.


Salix Homes – the award-winning Salford housing association providing social and affordable homes and housing services – became an independent association in 2015. It was only when the successful stock transfer took place for this that the funds for this project were unlocked. According to Terry McBride, development manager at Salix Homes (who’s overseeing all its new build developments and delivering on the organisation’s growth ambition), because of all these factors, the project was a “particularly challenging regeneration.” It required both the demolition of 146 sub-standard properties, and building 160 new homes in their place.


“This was Salix Homes’ first new-build


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