{"id":266897,"date":"2025-07-16T15:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266897\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:18:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:18:02","slug":"date-set-for-historic-greater-manchester-building-regeneration-to-be-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266897\/","title":{"rendered":"Date set for historic Greater Manchester building regeneration ‘to be completed’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The building has been closed since 2015\"GVsAshton- under-Lyne in Tameside(Image: Sean Hansford)<\/p>\n

The regeneration of the historic Ashton Town Hall will be completed by 2030, council bosses have vowed.<\/p>\n

The Grade-II listed building on Market Square, which opened in 1840, was closed in 2015 – and has been sealed off and surrounded by scaffolding since.<\/p>\n

Recently \u00a33.4m worth of works restructuring the fa\u00e7ade were completed, but there is still work to be done to bring the building back to its former glory.<\/p>\n

The latest structural works were done to ensure the town hall doesn\u2019t deteriorate any further.<\/p>\n

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Inside the building has gone to rack and ruin, with previous council reports revealing \u2018significant damage\u2019 occurred when the physical link between the town hall and the Tameside<\/a> Administrative Centre (TAC) was disconnected.<\/p>\n

The building houses Civic Hall, which contains the former council chamber. Currently full council meetings take place at Dukinfield Town Hall and previously Guardsman Tony Downes House in Droylsden<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"ConstructionConstruction site on Market Square, in the heart of Ashton town centre (Image: LDRS)<\/p>\n

Speaking at the latest council meeting in Dukinfield Town Hall, council leader Eleanor Wills said: \u201cWe pledge to restore Ashton<\/a> Town Hall, not merely as a heritage building, but as a civic symbol reborn. The heart of Ashton will beat anew with a town hall that doesn\u2019t just belong to the past, but leads the future. This isn\u2019t regeneration for nostalgia sake, it\u2019s regeneration for identity sake.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet this be a civic home that hosts possibility and a landmark where our borough\u2019s character shines through.\u201d<\/p>\n

This project has been funded by a cash injection of \u00a320m from the Levelling Up fund, secured by the council in 2021.<\/p>\n

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The town hall regeneration was one of Tameside council bosses\u2019 three big pledges for the borough’s future. The second was \u2018homes for all\u2019, which essentially sets out a minimum requirement for new housing developments to have 20 per cent affordable housing included.<\/p>\n

Affordable homes are houses that cost less than 80 per cent of the market rate.<\/p>\n

The third pledge outlined at the meeting on July 15 was \u2018a borough in motion\u2019. This vow was about having transport infrastructure that \u2018works for all\u2019, the council leader explained.<\/p>\n

More frequent buses and trains that run on time was a core part of this pledge.<\/p>\n

\u201cTameside must not be kept waiting,\u201d Coun Wills added. \u201cNot at the bus stop, not at a train station, or a tram stop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The building has been closed since 2015Ashton- under-Lyne in Tameside(Image: Sean Hansford) The regeneration of the historic Ashton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[1379,748,393,4884,2465,285,1026,16499,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-266897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-ashton-and-mossley","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-tameside","15":"tag-tameside-council","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114863584271625213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}