STRAY NOTES

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 53, 26 November 1929, Page 8

STRAY NOTES

HOUSING IN MANCHESTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTS. The Manchester City Council has approved a general scheme for establishing a model housing estate at Wythenshawe, and constructing a road and parkway that will traverse the new estate and connect Princess Road, Manchester, with the Altrincham-Stockport Road, across the river Mersey. The new road will be SO feet wide in the city; it will be constructed with a 50-foot carriage way, with 15-foot parkways on either side. A bridge over the Mersey will be 80 feet wide, between parapets. Between Kenworthy Lane- and the Altrincham-Stockport Road the highway will be constructed so as to form a parkway of an average width of 300 feet. This will contain a 40-foot carriage way, four 5-foot footpaths, and 15-foot cycling track. The total cost of the road scheme is estimated at £155,000, of which amount the City of Manchester will require to provide £81.000; the remainder is available from Government grants. The Wythenshawe housing project will see the corporation sponsoring the erection of 10,000 new homes at a cost estimated at £5,000.000. The annual charge to be met by the corporation in the scheme will be £47,500. Some 5000 acres of property, wooded and pastoral, will be transformed into n suburb of the city. The corporation already owns 60 per cent, of the three Cheshire towns of Northenden, Baguley, and Northern Etehells, and these will be incorporated in the new suburban territory, which will help the scheme of a Greater Manchester. The new community of Wythenshawe will not be a mere suburban adjunct; it will be a self-contained and self-support-ing edmmunty. No house building of a greater density than 12 per acre will be permitted on the property. In addition to the housing and business areas, there will be a central cmc centre, with subsidiary centres for shopping. Also recreational .grounds, a golt course, and various publid buildings Will be included. , . . There will be no property developments fronting on the parkway project, a factor

which will greatly enhance the amenities of the road to the travelling public. The Wythenshawe town plan is integral with the North Cheshire regional plan, and the two projects will transform a great area into perhaps one of the choicest community developments ever carried out in England.