STOCKPORT'S becoming the most exciting place to live in Greater Manchester with massive work taking place to redevelop the town.
New flats are going up around improved transport infrastructure and a stream of new cafes and bars encouraging are residents to stay local on Friday night.
The overhaul of the once tired and derelict centre is set to attract thousands to Stockport and be a major boost to the local economy.
But away from the cranes and ribbon cutting, tenants in one of the borough's housing estates say they are desperate to get out.
Lancashire Hill, in Reddish South, is home to hundreds of people and just twenty-five minutes from the town's main railway station.
In October, a visit to the estate found there to be a number of longstanding issues which residents wanted fixing. Local councillors said tenants were left living in "dire conditions" which hadn't been addressed for ages.
So has anything changed since then? The Local Democracy Reporting Service spoke to three different Lancashire Hill tenants about their experience of living on the estate Sarah is a 37-year-old who lives in the Bentleys building with her two sons. She says she's suffered from anti-social behaviour on the estate, when her own door was targeted and hit with eggs.
But her biggest concern is how long it takes to sort vital repairs.
This was especially worrying during the appearance of mould in her home.
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