A brighter future for Inner Rochdale
Rochdale Development Agency is leading the way on developing plans to
regenerate the areas of Milkstone & Deeplish,
the Oldham Road corridor and Canal Basin.
A major consultation has been launched aimed at attracting significant investment
into the area known as Inner Rochdale. The long term vision is to attract
a development partner to increase the choice of modern housing, create new
business and employment opportunities, attract new shops and improve the
environment.
The Brighter Futures consultation will build upon earlier successful regeneration
work to help deliver the scale of change that can turn the area around. We
will be seeking the support of residents around changing the way land in
the area is currently used.
A big opportunity
Securing a private developer would help make the most of the area’s
strengths including its closeness to the town centre, railway station and
Kingsway Business Park.
Whilst we aim to comprehensively regenerate the area over the next 10 to
15 years, it is about much more than bricks and mortar.
We will also look to create job opportunities, improve the local environment
and tackle other issues such as health, crime, transport and anti-social
behaviour.
The plan would link directly with and benefit from other regeneration activity
in the area including:
- Metrolink, providing a fast link between Rochdale and Manchester by 2012
- Kingsway
Business Park – more than 7,250 new jobs being created near
junction 21 of the M62
- Multi-million pound proposals to transform the town
centre with a new retail heart, offices, housing and transport interchange
- A
new £10 million health centre on Maclure Road
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