Leader’s Column – Housing Strategy and a new era for the region

By Tameside Council Leader, Brenda Warrington

At the start off of this yr I promised that 2022 would be remembered as the starting of an period of Inclusive Expansion for Tameside.

In the confront of the double problem of austerity and the price tag of residing crisis, we want to generate a borough exactly where everyone has the option to begin perfectly, dwell effectively and age very well.

Previous 7 days I attended two gatherings that will enable make that vision a truth.

The first took position in the heart of Manchester at Mayfield Depot, where by I joined the other Leaders of the Larger Manchester neighborhood authorities and the Mayor of Larger Manchester Andy Burnham to focus on our article-pandemic ambitions for the town location.

Our look at is basic since the governing administration is dragging its heels in excess of “Levelling Up”, we’ll just move up and do it ourselves.

This incorporates the improvement of the Japanese Expansion Cluster, which brings jointly investment decision and regeneration initiatives in Tameside this sort of as the Godley Eco-friendly Backyard Village, the regeneration of Hyde and the Ashton Mayoral Progress Zone to help nearby companies and meet up with our financial problems.

The conference also observed us agree a range of radical but deliverable new insurance policies for Greater Manchester as a whole.

Pursuing the completion of the ultimate authorized hurdle, I’m delighted to announce that Higher Manchester has now taken back again management of its bus services.

For the to start with time in 30 a long time, this critical aspect of our public transportation infrastructure will be run for men and women, not profit.

As portion of this, fares will be capped at £2 for adults and £1 for young children throughout the city location.

The initial publicly managed buses will run in Wigan and Bolton by autumn upcoming yr, with Tameside and other components of Greater Manchester signing up for in no afterwards than the finish of 2024.

In addition, all ten Better Manchester councils, including Tameside, publicly and formally fully commited to having to pay our social care workers the True Residing Wage.

These individuals have been the front-line of our reaction to the coronavirus pandemic around the past two years, and it is merely unacceptable that they too usually stay underpaid, overworked and disregarded.

I am delighted that Larger Manchester has agreed to collectively just take motion on this important challenge, and I intend to do whatever is needed to make fantastic on our guarantee with all doable haste.

The 2nd occasion took area a very little closer to dwelling in Tameside, as I met with the borough’s Registered Providers to start our new Housing Strategy.

If we genuinely want to make improvements to the lives of our residents and foster Inclusive Growth, a substantial good quality and cost-effective local housing supply is a non-negotiable necessity.

Just about every piece of exploration and evidence has manufactured it crystal clear that though very good housing can be a motor vehicle to improved lifestyle results, economic expansion and neighborhood wellbeing, undesirable housing is often a barrier to the same.

The Tameside Housing Method sets out our approach to achieving these broad ambitions around the subsequent two decades, but also lays out the simple steps we have to choose below and now.

This contains getting into account the simple fact that our housing present will have to accommodate the assorted requires and requirements of our people, accepting that extra should be carried out for people in our communities who involve expert or supported housing, intervening exactly where demanded to assure security and high quality inside our private rented sector, and ending the moment and for all the scourge of homelessness.

This will be supported by quarterly conferences with Registered Suppliers to talk about our progress, and the creation of an on line instrument to achieve a far better comprehending of housing enhancement across Tameside.

I genuinely believe that these occasions will be remembered as the instant in which we took the daring 1st steps forward in a new era for each Tameside and Increased Manchester.

Not just in creating a borough and city area equipped to thrive in the 21st century but, far more importantly, making sure that each individual resident can share in the benefits of Inclusive Growth and investment decision.

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Tameside Borough Council serves the parts of Ashton-less than-Lyne, Dukinfield, Stalybridge, Hyde, Audenshaw, Longendale, Mossley, Droylsden and Denton, Increased Manchester.