Gee Cross Welcome Neighbourhood Profile a Great Place to Live
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HOMES LIMITED Contents Gee Cross Welcome Neighbourhood Profile A great place to live... Local knowledge What next? Our commitment Neighbourhood plan What can you do? Getting Involved Your Money Welcome to your new neighbourhood plan At Jigsaw Homes Group we take pride in how we can work with our local partners to our neighbourhoods and want to work with make improvements. residents to achieve our mission of ‘Creating homes. Building lives.’ As a result of the findings, we will target resources to areas in need through a range This plan takes on board feedback from of activities to make you feel happier with employees and residents looking at key your neighbourhood. issues like health and employment, crime and antisocial behaviour, money We’ve been using neighbourhood plans for management and neighbourhood desirability. six years in Tameside now and they have helped us to target resources and carry out This information helps us to identify the work in areas most in need. This plan will be main challenges in your neighbourhood and in place for three years. Neighbourhood profile information Properties by type Here are some facts and figures about the people and properties that make up your Bungalows Houses Flats neighbourhood which we thought you may bedsits & find interesting. 20 195 maisonettes Tenant by age 208 Under 25 years - 5% 36 - 54 years - 30% Number of Jigsaw Homes properties 423 25 - 35 years - 22% 55+ years - 43% Average length of tenancy 5.05 years A great place to live... Gee Cross is a suburb and village within Tameside Metropolitan Borough. It lies within the town of Hyde and borders Woodley in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport and Godley. Gee Cross is built on the side of a hill called Werneth Low. Werneth Low is mostly a protected country park that was first created as a war memorial by the people of Hyde. It has a visitor’s center and ranger service. The Gee Cross neighbourhood is located to the east of Hyde which covers 423 properties that are managed by New Charter Homes. The neighbourhood comprises of a mixture of property types, predominantly houses but with a few low rise flats, maisonettes and bungalows; the majority of the property health care facility, post office, train station primary schools, Gee Cross Holy Trinity and within the neighbourhood is owned by New and a police station. Dowson Primary School and the nearest high Charter Homes. school is Alder Community High School. There are also a number of garage sites The neighbourhood benefits from a local throughout the neighbourhood with Jigsaw has plans to build around 2,400 more convenience store and a regular bus service garages available for residents to rent. Al- homes by 2022 through a mix of tenures to Hyde, Ashton and Manchester. There are though there are a number of open spaces in including affordable rent, shared ownership also a few local shops in the Lilly Street area the Cheetham Fold neighbourhood, there are and market sale. We plan to build over 300 of situated on Lumn Road and Lilly Street itself. no designated play areas for children. these new homes in Tameside, some of which Hyde town centre has a range of amenities are already complete or in progress and including two major supermarkets, a primary Within the neighbourhood there are two we’re sourcing potential sites for others. How well is your neighbourhood performing? Community insight We have identified a range of both internal and external indicators that Overall the neighbourhood is a popular place to live offering tell us how great your neighbourhood is overall. people a good quality of life. The neighbourhood performs well when compared with other areas locally in relation to socio economic indicators. The indicators range from the condition of the properties in the Performance in terms of health, employment, skills and training figures neighbourhood to levels of employment and poverty. You can see and poverty are all given consideration in this section. them all below with an explanation of what the ratings mean for your neighbourhood. Household money management Neighbourhood experience £ When looking at the way in which people pay their rent, levels of rent On average, people who move into the neighbourhood tend to stay arrears and the number of evictions, the neighbourhood performs to a in their homes for a reasonable length of time. The neighbourhood satisfactorily level. However, this means some households may still be experiences some antisocial behaviour or neighbour nuisance experiencing money management issues, could be at risk of losing their cases. This indicates that while the majority of residents treat each homes, and may need additional support. other with respect, there are some incidents that do occur that have a negative impact on people’s ability to relax and feel secure in their homes. Satisfaction with the neighbourhood is relatively high although Demand there is room for improvement. The time it takes to re-let a property is generally good across the neighbourhood indicating that properties are generally popular with a low number of repairs required and people who are eligible can move Overall summary into their new home relatively quickly. Overall the neighbourhood is a good place to live but it does experience some problems that occasionally Property condition affect people’s quality of life. The main aim for this neighbourhood is to identify the right activities, Generally, the homes in the neighbourhood are in a good condition, services and initiatives that will help address the are energy efficient and there are no common issues with repairs and specific issues that currently hold the area back. maintenance costs. Local knowledge: What you told us about your area. Neighbours are nice and there is a close to fly tipping in some hotspots across the community feel. neighbourhood. The area is conveniently close to the A number of areas have been identified as amenities. likely to benefit to improvements in lighting, particularly around Kensington Gardens the Local schools and transport links stairwell areas in some of the flats on the are excellent. neighbourhoods. There is an issue with contaminated bins and a lack of recycling facilities which is leading How will we progress the plan? As these plans are an update of the former Neighbourhood plans, work has already begun in your area, as well as in the other 28 New Charter Homes neighbourhoods. We will continue to review our performance data frequently over the next three years and we will keep you updated on the progress through our website, social media and newsletter. You will also have the opportunity to be involved so please watch out for advertised activities or requests for feedback. Our commitment We will monitor how residents are managing look to establish any trends in this data. We We will carry out an annual neighbourhood to pay their rent and continue to offer advice will establish patterns in the number and audit focusing on environmental issues and and guidance to those that are struggling costs of repairs and introduce a responsive grounds maintenance to highlight where financially. plan to address areas of concern to sit improvements are required, liaising with alongside our targeted investment and residents in relation to the concerns raised. We will work closely with residents to ensure planned replacement programmes. Customer Insight that the community knows where to access help and advice on money management Work closely in partnership with Greater Alongside partner agencies, we will look issues. Manchester Police & Tameside Council at a at the health of our residents and deliver local level in tackling antisocial behaviour, targeted initiatives to those areas where We will target any properties that are more nuisance and crime. residents are in need of additional support, difficult to let within the neighbourhood advice and guidance. and work to resolve any related appearance Assess lighting levels to passageways issues that may affect their popularity. We on the neighbourhood in conjunction with We will look at the levels of unemployment will also take action on any other issues Tameside Council to investigate the need in the area and guide people to our affecting the desirability of the area, to for energy efficient lighting into areas existing job clubs, where advice, assistance ensure a better customer experience. which are poorly lit. and support can be given to help people into training, volunteering and paid employment. We will regularly monitor the property Address poorly maintained/fly-tipped condition, area appearance and management gardens through joint working with To work in close partnership with Active issues related to any properties that become Tameside Council. Make referrals through Tameside, promoting all of the activities empty. We will identify any challenges early Tameside Council re-cycling team where where residents, young and old can get and make sure any properties that become larger/extra bins are required and tackle involved. empty are ready to let as quickly as possible. hot spot areas of fly-tipping in the neighbourhood. Distribute further Work with Green Charter and the We will identify where customers are not information on re-cycling and Cleancare team to identify and tackle happy with the repairs service provided and fly-tipping to residents. community area cleanliness. What can you do? Familiarise yourself with the money advice address any issues in your area and give you services that we and our other agencies the best service. provide and tell your neighbours, friends and family about them if you think they may be Get in touch if you experience anti-social in financial difficulty. Get in touch with us behaviour or, if you feel you are seeing a rise as soon as possible if you feel you are getting in crime in the area, so we can assist and behind on your rent and bills.