UDP - Chapter 23 - Hyde Town Centre
Unitary Development Plan
Chapter 23
Hyde Town Centre
| Ref | Proposal | Justification |
|---|---|---|
| HTC1 | Hyde Bus Station, between Market Street and Clarendon Street, to be remodelled and provided with an enhanced passenger environment. | HTC1. The existing bus station in Hyde, on the north side of the shopping area, is well placed to serve the town centre and is contained within a spacious site. However, although reconstructed in the 1970's when the adjacent motorway was built, the general passenger environment is poor by more recent standards and the layout does not make the best use of the space available. It is possible that remodelling could make land available for other uses, such as car parking or landscaping, or facilitate improved traffic circulation in the area. Implementation will depend upon the extent of resources becoming available to the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive over the Plan period. |
| HTC3 | Land at Wellington Street, off Manchester Road, to be developed for employment purposes. | HTC3. The boundary of this proposal, on the western side of the town centre, encompasses 2.5 hectares of land in various ownerships. The site comprises vacant, sloping, mostly overgrown land both to the west and east sides of Wellington Street but also includes certain residential properties, which need not necessarily be affected. The land is bounded on its north side by the M67 motorway and by industrial premises to the south and east, making employment use the most appropriate form of development. Some infilling or re-grading may be required on parts of the site and access would need to be provided to Manchester Road to an appropriate standard, either directly or through adjoining industrial land. Planning permission was granted in April 1992 for the erection of two industrial units on the part of the site west of Wellington Street. |
| HTC4 | Development Opportunity Area: The area of industrial premises, scrap yards and depots bounded by Manchester Road, Raglan Street and Hyde Central Station, on both sides of the Peak Forest Canal.
This area has potential for redevelopment mostly for light industrial, office and leisure uses, but also for small amounts of residential and specialist retail uses, taking advantage of the location alongside the canal on the edge of the town centre. |
HTC4. The long established industrial area to the south of Manchester Road and west of the Guide Bridge - Romiley railway is now a collection of mostly low grade industrial uses which include scrap yards, open compounds and vacant sites. The employment density is considered to be low and the overall appearance poor. The Council would like to witness a general rehabilitation of the area, which has the advantages of a prominent position in relation to the town centre, the Peak Forest Canal running through the middle, and the attractive open spaces of the Tame valley to the west.
The Council considers that this area could potentially be the location for a number of employment generating land uses drawn from a wide range of activities. Possible means of securing improvements to the overall quality of the local environment will therefore continue to be explored. As will more particular means by which improvements and maintenance of the waterway environment can be achieved, so that this aspect, which contributes a good deal to the potential attractiveness of the area and its surroundings, can itself benefit from any developments here. Development in this area must satisfy the requirements of policy G6a for traffic impact assessment. |
| HTC5 | Development Opportunity Area: The area of small premises, yards and railway arches bounded approximately by Manchester Road, the Peak Forest Canal, M67 and Clark Way.
The potential here is for office, light industrial and leisure uses, with scope for improvement of the railway arches. |
HTC5. This proposal encompasses an area of industrial and commercial properties fronting the north side of Manchester Road but focused around the arches under the Guide Bridge to Romiley railway line. This area is run down by modern standards with the established industrial premises offering very low employment densities. Certain refurbishment schemes have already pointed the way towards what the area could look like if further investment was fostered, including the improvement of the canalside warehouse and the boathouse, as have railway arch improvement schemes carried out elsewhere in the Borough. The area is very prominent on the north side of Manchester Road and its development for a range of employment uses is in line with economic regeneration policy.
The Council will also be seeking to ensure that specific proposals for the improvement and maintenance of the waterway environment are included with any wider development proposals, so that this particular aspect, which contributes a good deal to the potential attractiveness of the area and its surroundings, can itself benefit from any developments here. Development in this area must satisfy the requirements of policy G6a for traffic impact assessment. |
| HTC6 | Development Opportunity Area: The area of shops, other commercial premises and car parks, bounded by Greenfield Street, Market Street, Water Street, Cross Street and Great Norbury Street, including the site of Greenfield Street School proposed for relocation. Also the similar area bounded by Manchester Road, Clark Way and the M67 slip road.
The potential here is for redevelopment for office, leisure and retail uses as part of the core of the town centre. |
HTC6. This area is situated in the north west quadrant of the main commercial centre. The part of the area on the west side of Market Street to the north of Greenfield Street and on the north side of Manchester Road, consists of mostly run down and untidy commercial properties and cleared plots, which serve to detract from one of the major approaches to the town centre. It is considered that redevelopment in this area would offer amenity and economic advantages to the town centre, although not all of the properties facing Market Street need necessarily be involved.
The bulk of the remainder of the area is made up of the site of the existing Greenfield Street School and blocks of unfit houses to the west. With the proposed relocation of the school to Queen Street (HTC10) and anticipated housing clearance through Renewal Area initiatives, this will present an important opportunity to assemble a substantial commercial development site situated close by the established shopping and office area and within easy reach of the motorway, rail and bus stations. Whilst total demolition of the school remains the most likely option, consideration could also be given to possible retention of the building facing Greenfield Street and conversion for office and other commercial purposes, with new construction to the rear, so as to retain the civic character of this particular part of the centre. A planning brief setting out the basic planning criteria for the future development of land in the Greenfield Street area has been prepared. Development in this area must satisfy the requirements of policy G6a for traffic impact assessment. |
| HTC7 | Development Opportunity Area: the area of car parks and commercial premises bounded by Union Street, Crook Street and Clarendon Street, to the east of The Mall and including the multi-storey car park.
This area has potential for retail development as an extension of the existing precinct or as a linked scheme, including provision of replacement car parking. |
HTC7. The boundary of this proposal, situated on the eastern side of the shopping area up to the town centre by-pass, includes vacant land and car parking sites centred on Beeley Street and Reynold Street, plus certain existing buildings. This land could be assembled to form the site of an eastern extension to the recently refurbished shopping mall, or a separate form of retail development linked as conveniently as possible to the precinct, in either case providing improved facilities to the shopping centre as a whole.
The existing multi storey car park, which has recently undergone a considerable face-lift, could be retained or replaced in some way, according to the scale of any scheme which is formulated. Adequate servicing arrangements for existing as well as new shop units will also be necessary. The area has the benefit of high visibility and ready access from the existing town centre by-pass which is only a short distance from the M67 motorway. |
| HTC9 | Cleared land, allotments and industrial buildings bounded by Halton Street, the rear of houses on Mottram Road, Steeles Avenue and Brook Street, the M67 motorway and industrial premises north of Godley Brook, to be redeveloped for residential purposes.
This is subject to the limitations of the access |
HTC9. Centred around the Godley Brook valley on the north eastern edge of the town centre area, this 1.7 hectare site is an amalgamation of a number of small plots of now mostly open land. The site consists mostly of low lying land in the stream valley where the industrial properties were clustered, the north side of which is a natural slope which is cultivated as allotments. On the south side houses fronting Mottram Road are at a significantly higher level than the industrial premises and are separated from this area by a high retaining wall.
As a result of the need to replace houses likely to be demolished in the Hyde Renewal Area, this site presents an opportunity for land assembly to create a housing development close to the centre. The area is presently served off Mottram Road by an extension of Brook Street, the width, alignment and junction of which may limit the scale or nature of any development. The scope for access improvements will need to be explored as part of any scheme, as will the use of the Godley Brook as an amenity. |
| HTC10 | Land at Mona Street, Queen Street and Douglas Street, to be developed for a replacement of Greenfield Street Primary School.
School buildings to be sited south of the existing recreation ground, which is to be used as playing field, and Queen Street to be closed as a through road. |
HTC10. It is the intention of the Council to replace the existing Greenfield Street School on a site as convenient as possible for its catchment area in central Hyde. It is proposed therefore that this 2.9 hectare site just south of the main commercial area be developed for the replacement primary school and a nursery school together with community facilities.
Queen Street will be closed and the school building positioned mostly on land to the south of that road, with access from the Market Street direction. This will ensure that the playing field area on Mona Street to the north is left intact and can still contribute to the open space needs in the Nelson Street housing area. It is anticipated that whilst this playing field will serve the new school its use can be shared with the local community. Outline planning permission for the new school was granted in September 1992. |
| HTC11 | Tameside Leisure Park at Ewen Fields off Walker Lane to continue to be developed for a greater range of sport and leisure facilities.
This is subject to consideration of the effects of development on the surrounding residential area. |
HTC11. The Tameside Leisure Park on the eastern side of the town centre has now been established for several years and has seen the successful redevelopment of the football ground at Ewen Fields and the provision of the leisure pool. There are however two open areas of land still remaining on the site, one of which is being used as a playing field. It is the intention of the Council to utilise these areas for further development such as an indoor sports hall, so as to extend and consolidate facilities within the complex. Car parking will need to be supplemented as appropriate to meet anticipated increased usage and care will be taken to site the proposals in such a way as to minimise the effects on neighbouring residential properties. |
| HTC12 | Land at Croft Street and Railway Street to be laid out as an amenity and play area. | HTC12. This proposal relates to a vacant and overgrown site bounded by Croft Street, Railway Street, the Fire Station and the railway, on the western side of the town centre. The site, which is level but at the foot of a steep bank on Croft Street, presents an opportunity for a much needed amenity and play area in the general Great Norbury Street residential area where there are currently very limited open space facilities. The proposal is brought forward in essentially the same form from Proposal 7c of the Hyde Town Centre Local Plan. |
| HTC13 | Gower Hey valley, south of Woodend Lane and west of Dowson Road, to be retained as an open space, tidied up where necessary and provided with improved footpath access.
Most of the existing vegetation in this area to be retained. |
HTC13. The land which forms this steeply cut valley runs from Dowson Road to the south of property fronting Woodend Lane as far as the railway embankment, on the southern edge of the town centre. It is currently mostly used for allotments which could remain as part of a scheme, but the greatest value of the valley is the openness and amenity which this striking landscape feature offers to the town centre and the residential area to the south.
The land is in need of some improvement, including removal of tipped material and a general tidying up, whilst new footpaths would make it more widely accessible, but its existing characteristics add to the overall character of the area and offer an attractive setting to St. George's Church in the north which is a Listed Building. This proposal in part continues the intention of Proposal 7a of the Hyde Town Centre Local Plan, which was to resist change of use to non recreational or non amenity purposes in this and certain other smaller areas |