£6m regeneration for rundown Telford estate
Plans have been submitted for a £6 million project to regenerate one of the most run down areas of Telford.
The Brookside local centre regeneration project will see the old youth centre, three shops and 37 flats demolished and shops, houses, a play area and a community garden created. The community centre will also be extended and refurbished, and the youth centre facilities relocated there.
An application for outline planning permission for the scheme has been submitted to planning bosses and Telford & Wrekin Council has allocated a £6 million funding pot for the work.
The plans have been drawn up with the help of local residents and business owners, who worked alongside council officers.
The planning application says: “The proposals represent a unique opportunity to regenerate Brookside local centre and create a high quality central hub in an area that is lacking in character.
"The current appearance of the local centre does not make a positive contribution to the Brookside area, and the proposals provide a unique opportunity to improve the visual and functional landscape for the local residents.”
During the work, the space between the community centre and the new housing will be developed as play area and green space will be installed on the existing area of green space between Windmill Primary School and the homes in Burford. A public square will be created outside the community centre entrance, with the rebuilt shops to the east.
Car parking areas will be created for shoppers and the community centre.
Comments for: "£6m regeneration for rundown Telford estate"
Brian
What a waste of money. The thing that would make the estate better would be to evict some of the scum that live on the estate, i.e. drug dealers and vandals.
It's such a shame decent folk have to live beside such scum
Drone
Waht a complete and utter waste of public funds.
The Original Jake
I can't believe the comments above. Oh la-de-dah, let's not spend money regenerating a deprived area, they don't deserve it. Nasty attitudes.
Drone
That's right, they don't deserve it. In a couple of years it'll be back to the ghetto it is now. See Woodside.
The Original Jake
Thoroughly unpleasant. You, not Woodside.
Drone
I may well be. But I'm also right.
The Original Jake
You may think you're right, but the plans could well go ahead regardless of what you think. If they do then what you think isn't very important.
Drone
Just offering my worthless opinion, much like you.
The Original Jake
Drone by name...
Thinker
Seem to remember a lot of cash being thrown at Brookside for kitchens, porches about 10 years ago made very little difference. It's a shame a proportion of residents in that area seem to take no pride in their enviroment,
WASTE OF MONEY.
Waterboy8535
Oh well thanks to those people saying it's a waste of money!
I live in the flats very close to the centre in question. I've never not worked and still do. My flat and indeed the block I live in is kept clean and smart by the people in it. We never have any issues.
So why can't I have a new centre with new shops, better services and facilities? The current nursery does outstanding work but the place looks like a prison which isn't the right environment to teach children.
Yes like some other estates we have some lower forms of life that cause a nuisance but hopefully after building the new place then the council will look at protecting it better.
Build a better environment and it MAY work to better the area and help peoples respect for the area and others, leave it run down as it is now and it will just help keep people depressed about where they live.
Why shouldn't people not priviliged enough to come from a better area, or like me someone who could only afford a small mortgage after their divorce, be entitled to have the chance to live in a nicer environment????
mermaid69
I lived on Brookside for over 30 years and was sad to see it go the way it has. i have now moved away from there and would never move back.
I was afraid to go to the shops by myself due to the amount of drunks and druggies hanging around and begging there.
I feel that the people who cause the issues and make people nervous of using the facilities that the estate has should be dealt with and moved on by the police and then people may be more prepared to look after their homes and use the shops and community centre.
When i was there the cso's and local police used to hang round the shops chatting to th very people they should be moving on.
i lived in the flats and opened my curtains one morning to see a man and woman shooting up drugs in the bin sheds.
This is not an enviroment that i would like to bring my children up in.
There are some nice people on the estate to but unfortunatley they are forgotten because of the more unsavoury charecters.