Hulme

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Hulme

• 1930s - 130,000 people lived there
• Traditional working class area
• Very poor housing, including back to backs
• Slum clearance 1950s and 1960s

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Hulme, Manchester
19th Century housing
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Hulme

• 1960s redeveloped for 12,000 people
• deck-access flats
• vehicular-pedestrian segregation
• Major problems
• infestation
• poor heating
• unemployment - 39

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Hulme

• Municipal paternalism
• No consultation with the residents
• Many of those who lived in the cleared houses
  were dispersed to Wythenshawe or other overspill
  estates

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Housing in Hulme

• The Crescents - four elongated blocks housing
  over 900 flats streets in the skies -
  discredited, system-built deck access blocks.

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Hulme, Manchester
1960s public housing
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Hulme

• It become a national symbol of the failures of
  1960s system-built housing.
• Manchester City Council began offering
  upper-storey flats to students, all-adult
  households and, later, to single homeless people.

• 10 minutes from Manchester City Centre - island
  of deprivation - one of the worst in Western
  Europe.

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City Challenge

• 35m budget for City Challenge. also benefited
  from other UK area-based initiatives.
• Partnership with AMEC Regeneration
• Hulme Regeneration Ltd
• 3 councillors
• 3 members from AMEC
• 3 community representatives

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Proposals

• Vision for Hulme - public consultation
• demolish all deck access blocks inc Crescents

• redevelop as an ordinary mixed neighbourhood
• reopen the area to traffic (Stretford Road)
• higher density redevelopment
• sites for employment on Princess Road.

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Achievements

• Major public investment
• Mixed tenure
• High quality design of housing
• Increased densities
• Environmental improvements
• Integration with the rest of the city.

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Hulme after City Challenge

• Hulme became a much more attractive area to live.
  
• Dramatic diversification of the housing stock
  (part of the end-state vision)
• New housing association homes remain as
  affordable as council homes
• The price of new private homes has risen far
  faster than in the city as a whole. Many more
  professional households moved to the area pricing
  Hulme residents out of the private sector. (SURF,
  2002)

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Reflection

• Local deprivation is still high in national
  terms.
• Hulme compares badly with more successful areas
  of the city on employment, education and child
  poverty
• Not the full range of local services, lack
  self-generating businesses.
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation (1994). Lessons from
  Hulme -Housing Summary 5 Joseph Rowntree
  Foundation.
• The SURF Centre (2002). Hulme, Ten years on
  Report to Manchester City Council.