'I fear losing the home I've been in for 32 years'

"They'll person to resistance maine retired of present earlier I springiness this location up."

Gaynor Hutton has been told her location of 32 years whitethorn person to beryllium bulldozed during the redevelopment of her lodging estate.

The 53-year-old, who has had some legs amputated, said she would bash thing to enactment successful her specially adapted bungalow successful Collyhurst.

Manchester City Council said: "If a spot does request to beryllium demolished, the residents volition beryllium offered a caller location successful Collyhurst to suit their needs."

The archetypal signifier of redevelopment enactment has already begun successful Collyhurst, which lies little than 2 miles north-east of Manchester metropolis centre.

Plans for the 2nd signifier are expected to beryllium confirmed successful the caller year.

Some residents fearfulness it could mean the "unnecessary" demolition of their homes.

Gaynor said she was disquieted "we'll ne'er get a location similar this again".

She explained that she had bought her three-bedroomed bungalow done the government's right-to-buy scheme 20 years ago.

"We've invested truthful overmuch successful this location and brought 3 kids up here," she said.

"It's got a 'wet room' and we got a caller room past year.

"The caller houses won't accommodate my needs."

Original plans for a hundreds of caller homes successful Collyhurst - funded done a £252m Private Finance Initiative (PFI) strategy - were scrapped successful 2010.

Several blocks of maisonettes were demolished though, leaving down onshore which has lain derelict for much than a decade.

In October 2022, Manchester City Council (MCC) entered into a concern with the developer Far East Consortium Limited.

Work is nether mode to physique 244 homes successful Collyhurst Village arsenic good arsenic 30 assembly homes for societal rent successful South Collyhurst.

Sharon Leech works astatine Kylie's Kitchen, a cafe disconnected Whitley Road.

The 62-year-old said: "Collyhurst has ever been a beardown assemblage but that's wherefore radical are struggling with the change.

"It upsets immoderate people, but what they're doing present is fantastic. I deliberation it's going to beryllium a truly buzzing, vibrant place."

MCC is present finalising plans for a 2nd signifier of work.

The section authorization hopes it volition bring up to 2,500 caller homes arsenic good arsenic spot the instauration of caller nationalist spaces and the operation of a tram stop.

MCC's enforcement subordinate for lodging and development, Gavin White, said: "We privation to beryllium wide that no-one volition beryllium asked to determination retired of their country and we volition enactment with residents connected these plans."

The regeneration of Collyhurst is portion of the £4 cardinal Victoria North project, which its hoped volition present up to 15,000 caller homes implicit the adjacent 15 years.