The Mancunian Way: ‘Sword of Damocles’
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukHello Last October Rochdale declared a housing emergency. At the time almost 10,000 households were on the waiting list for social housing.
Yet on a landmark estate in the centre of town almost 400 flats stand empty. In fact the occupants were paid to leave. What exactly is going on with the Seven Sisters?
Here Stephen Topping and Tom George attempt to answer a question that, as one tenant put it, has been hanging over the estate like the ‘sword of Damocles’.
Four of the Seven Sisters tower blocks were first earmarked for demolition in 2016, with landlord Rochdale Boroughwide Housing later announcing plans they would make way for 120 new homes.
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