Stonebridge Park

 

The area of St Ann’s today known as the Stonebridge Park Estate, was planned and built by the developer Whimpey in 1976 following the major slum clearance of old St Ann’s. The majority of the houses have no cavity walls or insulation, making them cold during the winter months and are expensive to keep warm. All the tenants have now had their homes improved by landlord Nottingham City Homes with new modern bathrooms, kitchens and double glazing under the Decent Homes programme. Home owner/occupiers have not had this luxury, and with a large number being elderly or in fuel poverty, are unable to meet the costs involved.

 

The blocks of three tier flats were not popular with locals, as they became grotty & dismal through the lack of council maintenance, while some flats became a haven for drugs and antisocial behaviour. The many interlocking footpaths increased crime in the area by allowing dark corners were drug dealing could take place, and burglars & criminals could escape easily.

 

Today with the demolition of all of the flats, and with the new sensitive design for the lands which eliminate many of the footpaths, Stonebridge Park is becoming a new social housing estate fit for the century ahead. New government Kick Start funding is urgently needed now to keep the programme on track and to provide the new affordable social houses needed by hundreds of families on Nottingham City Council waiting lists.