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Cantril Farm to Stockbridge Village.. |
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"Stockbridge Village has emerged from the despair and dereliction synonymous with the classic example of a sink housing estate that was Cantril Farm in the 1970's. A planner’s dream of a safe environment, good shopping areas, schools and churches for the community, Cantril Farm was intended to be a model green belt housing estate to decant people from Liverpool’s decaying city centre. Built in the mid-1960’s for a population of 15,000, the dream lasted only until people tried to live there..." The story of Stockbridge Village, and the creation of Stockbridge Village Trust (and ultimately Villages Housing), marks the start of the trend in Local Authority Stock Transfers and the use of private sector funding in a large-scale public regeneration project...read on! More>> |
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