Around 100 homes in Glossop were in line for demolition or improvement and there was just £138,000 to do it.
This was the headline that screamed out from the Chronicle’s front page in the winter of 1946.
Despite the seemingly small amount of cash involved, High Peak Borough Council was confident it was enough.
Councillors had been keen to make what they described as ‘substantial in-roads into the problems’ of the town’s private housing.
A report to the relevant committee would involve:
- Spending £40,000 to buy around 20 homes that needed improving.
- Paying £10,000 to update and modernise 10 properties it had recently bought.
- Spending £20,000 to buy 40 ‘unfit’ homes from private landlords.
The rest of the cash was to be spent on buying and demolishing 40 homes that were in such poor condition that demolition was the only practicable solution.
Whether all the homes on the list were either saved or knocked down was unclear.
But it was latest example of the council’s ambitious programme to give Glossop people something they would be happy and proud to call home.
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