Major improvements to housing in Openshaw plus a £40 million investment in a new district shopping centre are helping to create a new sense of community.
Situated just a few minutes from the city centre out towards the M60, Openshaw is another of East Mancheter’s neighbourhoods that offers a highly convenient location married with a renewed sense of community.
£40 million investment in Openshaw’s new district shopping centre will revitalise the local district centre, with a brand new Morrisons supermarket as the anchor tenant which opened in November 2010. Further plans include a range of smaller shop units, office accommodation and a new health and leisure facility.
In addition, the city has major plans to redevelop the wholesale food market at New Smithfield Market, turning it into a foodie hub in the mould of London’s Borough and Spitalfields Markets.
But it’s not just new development that is transforming Openshaw. Major investment in improving the existing housing infrastructure has included the ‘Green Streets’ initiative to landscape road corners and turn them into green spaces for community use, plus alley gating projects that have created safe communal garden areas between terraced properties.
In the neighbourhood
Meet the people
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Fairfields
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Westbury Gardens
Places to live
At a glance
Railway stations:
Gorton
Metrolink stations:
Velopark (opening 2012)
Clayton (opening 2012)
Edge Lane (opening 2012)
Schools:
St Clement's C of E Primary School
Varna Street Primary School
Higher Openshaw Community School
St Barnabas C of E Primary School
Colleges: Manchester College
Medical services:
Higher Openshaw Primary Care Centre
Attractions:
Philips Park
Clayton Vale
Eastlands
New Smithfield Market
Next to:
Clayton
Beswick
Gorton