They totally ruined a community for a dream that hasn't come true
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTucked between rows and rows of terraced homes in Derker, there is a small pocket of wilderness. The overgrown fields on London Road, Abbotsford Road, Evelyn Street and Cromford Street, now covered in brambles, wildflowers and fly-tipped rubbish, once held more than 400 homes for local families.
But for 15 years, the land has been little more than an ‘eyesore’ - and a stark reminder of a once thriving neighbourhood by ‘controversial’ plans to improve the area.
Narinder Kaur, a local shop owner, said the streets used to be a part of a ‘big community’. Losing it was ‘like a bereavement’. “Everybody felt it.
Nobody could believe it,” she said. The area is just one of many that was left devastated after a contentious scheme gave councils the licence to purchase and demolish homes across northern England and the Midlands.
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