Houses and park plan at old power station site

AN OLD coal-fired power station site will be transformed into a new park and houses.

- GEORGE LYTHGOE

The old Hartshead Power Station and Millbrook Sidings in Stalybridge have been vacant for 35 years since.

The site is now due to be transformed after planning approval was granted despite objections from some residents and councillors. A park and 162 new homes are planned.

The site was shut in the 1980s, as planning committee members in Tameside heard numerous applications promising garden centres and leisure facilities haven't been followed through in the years since.

But Casey Group Limited now has a £12.5m masterplan comprising four development 'zones'.