Tameside Regeneration & Investment Briefing

Funding, places and delivery. A briefing for the organisations bringing forward homes and regeneration across Ashton, Stalybridge, Hyde and Denton.

Dates and decisions to watch

Figures in this briefing cover different programmes, geographies and periods. They should not be added into a single borough investment total.

The funding landscape

Up to £46 billion over ten years

Homes England and its subsidiary, the National Housing Bank, have up to £46 billion to deploy across England to 2036. These are the principal streams. [1]

The joint Investment Prospectus, published on 31 March 2026 ahead of the Bank's opening on 1 April, brings grant, land and finance into one framework. The Bank aims to attract more than £50 billion of additional private capital over the decade.

*The prospectus describes the agency's share as £3.1bn, subject to final confirmation. These are programme envelopes, not a ring-fenced allocation to Tameside.

Programme milestones

Land, grant and finance can be combined around the needs of a scheme.

Grant, land and finance (products and routes)

Which support fits a scheme depends less on its size than on what is holding it up: a funding gap, a difficult site, or the tenure of the homes to be delivered. [1]

Two grant routes in Greater Manchester. Housing and infrastructure grant is normally expected to come first through GMCA's integrated settlement. Social and Affordable Homes Programme grant remains administered by Homes England. The National Housing Bank makes its own finance decisions while working alongside the agency.

Greater Manchester: how the regional routes fit together

For a Tameside scheme, the first conversation depends on the funding gap. Homes England and GMCA have complementary roles; a regional headline figure is not a borough award.

First-wave SAHP estimate for Greater Manchester

• £529m · c.4,400 homes
• Estimated Strategic Partnership spend and homes across the city-region. The figure comes from the regional funding breakdown in MHCLG's press release of 24 August 2026, not from the Homes England strategic-partner release. It does not give a Tameside allocation. [43]
• The 25 August 2026 Homes England release names the 33 strategic partners outside London and states no grant or homes total; its published partner table sums to £9,584.1m and 73,617 homes. It contains no borough or city-region breakdown. [2]

Good Growth Fund: current position. Affordable-housing applications are rolling, with no fixed deadline and subject to available funding. Most other GGF applications start through the relevant local authority. The published July transport, city-densification and innovation calls closed on 4 August; these rounds are now closed. [3]

Tameside example. GMCA's Good Growth pipeline includes £17.4m for upfront enabling works and infrastructure at Godley Green Garden Village, described as unlocking up to 2,150 homes, 7,000 sq m of employment space and 600 jobs. This is a site-specific infrastructure award, not a housing grant to the borough. [8]

Practical implication. Keep one scheme funding schedule that identifies each source, eligible cost, outstanding decision and condition. Ask the funders to agree which costs their contributions support and how those contributions fit together.

Regional ambitions to design for

GM's published priorities include 10,000 energy-efficient Social Rent homes by 2030. Places for Everyone, covering nine GM authorities including Tameside, seeks 50,000 affordable homes by 2039, including 30,000 for social or affordable rent. These are regional ambitions across delivery routes. [21]

Who decides what (decisions and public contacts)

Funding, planning and delivery sit with different organisations. Identify the decision you need before choosing the first conversation.

1. Homes England / National Housing Bank — Homes England takes final SAHP funding and contractual decisions. The Bank assesses its finance investments. [1,18]
2. Greater Manchester Combined Authority — Shapes regional priorities, tenure mix and priority sites; aligns investment through the Integrated Pipeline and Good Growth Fund. [3,8,21]
3. Tameside Council — Local housing need, planning and council land; accountable body for Pride in Place funding in Ashton and Hattersley. Council-owned sites for affordable housing are being offered to Registered Providers through a prospectus process. [10,14,17]
4. Neighbourhood boards — The Ashton Neighbourhood Board decides which projects are funded from the Ashton allocation; the Hattersley board is developing its plan. Council accountability and national programme requirements still apply. [10,12,40,41]
5. Scheme owner and delivery team — The RP, council or developer assembles the scheme, appoints its team and manages delivery. Establish the actual commissioning organisation. [16]

Public routes for the next conversation

A useful first enquiry names the site, landowner, proposed use, delivery lead, funding gap and next decision. Attach a concise programme and explain what the requested intervention changes.

Accessing programme grant: a route for smaller providers

A first-wave strategic allocation is one route into delivery. Continuous Market Engagement also gives eligible organisations a direct route to Homes England.

• Continuous Market Engagement — Open for individual schemes and portfolios, while funding remains available. Designed to accommodate smaller partners, new entrants and complex projects. [19]
• Strategic partnerships — Programme-level allocations support delivery at scale. The initial bidding round closed on 15 April 2026; future rounds will be announced. [18]

Before a grant application

Organisations need Homes England Investment Partner qualification to receive grant. New partners can apply for that status alongside the funding application. Programme qualification and regulatory registration are separate steps. [19]

The bid should show how it meets local housing need and regional priorities. Greater Manchester seeks at least 60% Social Rent through SAHP, alongside supported housing, regeneration and better alternatives to temporary accommodation or costly care settings. [21]

How to prepare the discussion

Bring a site schedule, proposed tenure mix, cost plan, planning position, delivery programme and confirmation of the intended landlord. Explain what is ready now and which dependencies still need resolving.

Places and programmes (borough programmes)

Town-centre renewal, a garden village and council land opportunities sit at different stages. Establish the live phase and the organisation commissioning it.

Godley Green Garden Village — up to 2,150 homes, 11 phases

The council resolved on 18 March 2026 to grant outline consent for revised proposals: up to 2,150 homes across 11 phases over about 15 years, with 363 homes (about 17%) designated affordable and Section 106 contributions of nearly £29m, including £13m towards a primary school. The council entered an agreement with MADE Partnership in summer 2024 to progress delivery. MADE Partnership is a joint venture between Barratt Redrow plc, Homes England and Lloyds Banking Group; it will fund and install primary and community infrastructure and create serviced land parcels for housebuilders to build private and affordable homes, with the venture overseeing the development over about 15 years. MADE is progressing legal agreements and was expected to submit reserved matters for infrastructure from spring 2026, with housebuilder applications to follow. The 363 affordable homes (about 17%) and the near-£29m of Section 106 contributions including £13m towards a primary school come from local press reporting of the committee decision, not from the applicant's or the council's own release, and are not verified against a primary source. [6,7]

GMCA has allocated £17.4m of Good Growth funding for enabling works and infrastructure. Confirm which phase, parcel and housebuilder is live before assuming a contracting opportunity. [8]

Ashton town centre — £20m Levelling Up programme

Ashton's £20m Levelling Up Fund award covers Ashton Town Hall restoration, the former bus interchange site (commercial, residential and retail; re-checked 19 September 2026, neither the Ashton Town Centre page nor the Ashton Mayoral Development Zone page publishes a homes number for the site) and market square / cycle routes. The £10.8m Market Square and outdoor-market canopy scheme was formally opened on 11 July 2026; Market Hall improvements, part-funded by £250,000 UKSPF, are under way with reopening planned for next year, and the Town Hall restoration targets 2030. [22,23,27,28]

The council's Ashton Town Centre page names the Market Hall funding as £250,000 of UKSPF/FLAG funding and confirms the Town Hall restoration vision for 2030 completion. It also carries a live opportunity the rest of this brief does not: expressions of interest are open for ten new kiosks at the redeveloped Market Square, aimed at food and drink businesses with small retail also considered — information pack from markets@tameside.gov.uk. Public-realm enquiries: ashton.publicrealm@tameside.gov.uk. The page still describes temporary trading at Fletcher Square and works running to March 2026, so treat its construction narrative as out of date and check current status before relying on it. [27]

Confirm which building, market or site phase is being commissioned and by whom.

Stalybridge town centre — £19.9m Capital Regeneration Projects award

Stalybridge received £19.9m in March 2023 from the Town Centre Capital Regeneration programme. The council's programme covers public-realm works on Market Street, Armentieres Square, Trinity Street, Grosvenor Square, Corporation Street and Old Town Hall Gardens (phased closures from February 2026, Market Street works through the end of 2026), plus a River Tame footbridge and multi-storey car park under consultation and residential development at Stalybridge West around the station. Re-checked 19 September 2026, the council page describes only "preparation of sites at Stalybridge West for residential development and investment" and publishes no homes number. [9]

Destination Denton — £16.764m Levelling Up Fund (Round 3)

The council's June 2026 update records £16.764m from LUF Round 3, with the full grant confirmed by the Department for Transport in December 2025 and a spend deadline of March 2028. Three projects: Denton Town Hall refurbishment (tendered via The Chest, preferred contractor selected May 2026), Festival Hall works to enable disposal for housing while retaining ground-floor community use (open-market marketing from June 2026 after RPs showed limited interest), and town-centre public-realm and active-travel works. [29,30]

Figure note: MHCLG's published Round 3 list of successful projects gives Tameside's "Destination Denton" award as £16,764,793. The council's public page rounds this to £16.8m and a July 2026 press report cites £16.5m; the MHCLG figure is the one to use. [29,30,31,42]

Council land for affordable housing — up to 485 homes on 13 sites

On 26 November 2025 the Executive Cabinet approved a programme to dispose of 13 council-owned sites (about 27 acres) to Registered Providers for up to 485 social and affordable homes, with a minimum of 60% for social rent. The published site list is: five in Hyde (269 homes) — Bennett Street 98, Victoria Street and Talbot Road 105, Bennett Street and Arnside Drive 49, Ward Street 10, Richmond Street and Seaton Mews 7; four in Denton (150) — Capesthorne Walk and Circular Road 67, land adjacent to Greswell Primary School 39, land east of Corrie Primary School 29, Denton Festival Hall 15; two in Droylsden (37) — Ashton Hill Lane / New Street / Market Street 28, Droylsden Cemetery 9; one in Mottram (16) — former Longdendale Rec Centre; and one in Ashton (13) — Marsden Close. Nine sites were already declared surplus; the other four were to be declared surplus after the meeting. Sites are to be offered through a site prospectus setting out the council's tenure, type and capacity expectations and known constraints; the council holds just under £250,000 of Section 106 money that could support delivery. Disposals were expected to begin in early 2026. [14,15]

Establish current availability, tenure requirements and which RP has been selected for each site with the council.

Hyde and Droylsden masterplans

Town-centre masterplans have been approved for Hyde and Droylsden; published 2026 detail on homes and phasing is limited. [23]

Pride in Place: two boards, two local plans

Ashton-under-Lyne and Hattersley are two separate Pride in Place awards in two different cohorts, and the amounts are not the same. Ashton is a phase one place — one of the 75 towns announced in March 2025 under what was then the Plan for Neighbourhoods — with £19.53m over ten years plus £0.600m capacity funding. Hattersley is a phase two neighbourhood announced on 25 September 2025 with £20m over ten years plus £0.15m capacity funding. Do not add the two into a single borough total and do not apply one cohort's milestones to the other. [10,11,12,32]

Ashton: first-phase projects approved (March 2026) [11]

A further five projects are funded from the separate £0.600m capacity allocation (£0.255m committed), including a feasibility study for restoring the Tameside Hippodrome and a community development worker for Ashton. Capacity funding is a different pot from the £19.53m programme allocation and the two should not be added. [11]

Funding was not released until April 2026 and depended on MHCLG approval of the Regeneration Plan and a signed Memorandum of Understanding. [11]

Bring a project that can be delivered

• Need, ownership and consent — Explain who benefits and how the proposal responds to residents. Identify land control, a delivery lead, consents and dependencies.
• Capital and continuing costs — Set out works, development costs and contingency, then identify the asset owner, operating budget and maintenance responsibility. The Ashton board's report highlights future maintenance costs as a selection factor. [11]

National guidance sets a 30 November 2026 Pride in Place Plan milestone for phase-two areas such as Hattersley. It does not apply to Ashton, which is a phase one place already in delivery; nor does the 26 February 2027 milestone, which belongs to the phase 2 expansion cohort named on 20 March 2026, in which Tameside has no neighbourhood. Boards must have at least eight members; at least 51% should live or work locally, and the local MP must sit on the board. The ten-year programme runs in three investment periods (4, 3 and 3 years), with spend thresholds at each stage. Public contact routes: page 6. [32,40,41,44,45]

Local investment and project calls: different pots, different decisions

Town-centre capital programmes, the two neighbourhood plans and the borough-wide Impact Fund operate at different scales and on different timetables.

Town-centre capital programmes: published headlines

These are separate awards from different government programmes with different delivery deadlines. Do not add them together.

UK Shared Prosperity Fund

The council's UKSPF Communities and Place allocation was £1.9m with a delivery deadline of 31 March 2025, focused on borough-wide projects and town-centre projects in Stalybridge, Hyde and Ashton (including £250,000 for Ashton Market Hall and £75,000 for Hyde Market Ground). Re-checked on 19 September 2026, the council page still shows only the £1.9m Communities and Place allocation to March 2025 and publishes no 2025/26 or 2026/27 allocation and no open call. Contact: ukspf@tameside.gov.uk. [22]

Tameside Pride in Place Impact Fund — £1.5m, all rounds closed

• Tameside appears in Annex A of both MHCLG grant determinations at £750,000 a year — the 2025-26 determination signed 29 September 2025 and the 2026-27 signed 8 April 2026 — each listing 94 local authorities. The £1.5m commonly quoted is the two annual determinations added together, not a single award. Capital improvements to community spaces, public spaces and high streets, to be delivered by March 2027. Some funding was committed in 2025/26; the council reports £1.3m available for 2026/27. [24,46]
• Three rounds: 1 March–30 April 2026, 1 June–31 July 2026, plus an earlier commitment round. The council reports 39 projects supported in total; the final round (agreed 26 August 2026) allocated £807,000 to 24 projects, including Mossley Community Centre (£50,795), Denton West End Community Library (£70,293), St George's Community Centre, Denton (£60,984), the Grafton Centre, Hyde (£53,250) and 1st Haughton Green Scout & Community Centre (£80,820). [24,25,26]
• Priority areas: the seven towns and neighbourhoods outside Ashton and Hattersley. The council does not publish a ward list; prioritisation is by town rather than ward. [24]

This is not extra funding for the two neighbourhood programmes, and the fund is now fully allocated. Capital only; no revenue for running costs. [24]

Homes, partners and local need

The current Tameside Housing Strategy covers 2021–26. It records a Places for Everyone housing requirement of 8,850 homes for 2018–2037 (an average of 466 a year: 370 a year to 2023, then 500 a year) and an affordable-housing shortfall of 828 homes a year, split 60% rented and 40% affordable home ownership. The emerging Local Plan, Homes, Spaces, Places, sets a goal of 9,700 homes by 2042 and supports 20% more social and affordable homes by 2030. [4,5,33]

These are examples of local activity, not a complete provider list, procurement shortlist or evidence of a new SAHP award. Homes England's 25 August 2026 release names the 33 first-wave SAHP strategic partners (outside London). Providers active in Tameside that appear on that list include Jigsaw Homes North (1,990 homes, £249.5m), Onward Homes Limited (3,000 homes, £345.1m), Great Places Housing Association (2,600 homes, £320.6m) and Together Housing Association (3,200 homes, £326.6m). Irwell Valley Homes is not on the list. These are national partnership totals, not Tameside allocations; the release gives no borough-level figures. [2]

For development and asset teams

Agree tenure, accessible homes and support needs before fixing the unit mix. Bring the operator into the appraisal: nominations, management, service charges and whole-life maintenance. Keep new-supply budgets separate from existing-stock investment.

Delivery and the supply chain: from scheme assembly to appointment

The national programme supports delivery through councils, Registered Providers and developers. The local supply chain enters through their projects, procurement routes and contractor packages.

Finding the actual route to work

Tameside Council procures through STAR Procurement, the shared service with Rochdale, Stockport and Trafford councils. Opportunities are advertised on The Chest (North West procurement portal), with above-threshold notices on Find a Tender. The council's June 2026 Denton update confirms the Town Hall works contract was tendered through The Chest in February 2026. A pipeline notice for a Tameside Highways Asset Management Plan framework (estimated September 2026 to September 2030) has been published on Find a Tender. Contracts registers are published by each STAR council under the Local Government Transparency Code. [16,30,36]

RP and developer appointments have their own routes. Confirm whether work is being commissioned directly, through a framework or by a main contractor. A funding announcement does not itself create an open invitation to tender.

Tameside's social value page invites bidders to contact socialvalue@tameside.gov.uk for help incorporating local priorities (local jobs, environmental projects, community support, apprenticeships and skills) into tenders. Agree measurable delivery commitments with the commissioner rather than treating them as a separate publicity activity. [20]

Skills and delivery capacity: build the workforce into the plan

Construction skills, training capacity and local employment should be considered while the scheme and its contracts are being assembled.

Construction training in Ashton-under-Lyne

Tameside College operates an £11m Construction Skills Centre in Ashton-under-Lyne, designed with regional employers and built by Willmott Dixon, training plumbers, bricklayers, painters and decorators, electricians and joiners. The college is a long-established apprenticeship provider specialising in construction. The Ashton Pride in Place board has allocated £0.25m towards portal-frame buildings at the college to extend vocational provision. [11,37,38]

The Growth Company's Tameside Skills Centre (Kayley Industrial Estate, Ashton) offers a Level 1 Construction Multiskills programme for 16–18 year olds. [39]

1. Forecast — Trades, numbers and start dates
2. Agree — Training, supervision and delivery partners
3. Evidence — Starts, qualifications and sustained work

A practical workforce brief for a live scheme

Suggested briefing checklist for clients and contractors. Agree the actual commitments through the scheme's procurement and contract process.

Connect training with community benefit

Tameside Council's social value team supports businesses, community organisations, schools and colleges to link social value commitments with training, apprenticeships and skills. Use it alongside the workforce plan, with named responsibilities and outcomes that can be evidenced. [20]

• Tameside College Construction Skills Centre: 0161 908 6728 · apprenticeship enquiries 0161 908 6608 [38]
• Tameside Skills Centre (The Growth Company): Tameside@gceducationandskills.ac.uk · 0161 359 3017 [39]
• Council social value: socialvalue@tameside.gov.uk [20]

Sources

Evidence and source notes

Research checked on 18 September 2026, with a further verification pass on 19 September 2026. Numbered references link to primary sources where available; public enquiry routes are on page 6. National references 1–3, 18–19, 21 and 40–41 were re-fetched on 19 September 2026 and now carry deep links to the specific GOV.UK, Homes England and GMCA pages.

1. Homes England / National Housing Bank, Investment Prospectus 2026 (published 31 March 2026). source
2. Homes England, strategic partners confirmed for the Social and Affordable Homes Programme, 25 August 2026. source
3. GMCA, Greater Manchester Good Growth Fund. source
4. Tameside Council, Tameside Housing Strategy (2021–26) page and contact. source
5. Tameside Council, Homes, Spaces, Places: Preferred Options consultation and next stages. source
6. Tameside Correspondent, Godley Green plan reaches next stage, 19 March 2026. source
7. Godley Green Garden Village, council resolves to grant planning consent. source
8. GMCA, next wave of Good Growth funding (Godley Green £17.4m). source
9. Tameside Council, Stalybridge Town Centre regeneration programme. source
10. Tameside Council, Pride in Place: Ashton-under-Lyne. source
11. Ashton Neighbourhood Board, First Phase Project Selection report, 18 March 2026. source
12. Tameside Council, Hattersley Pride in Place. source
13. Tameside Correspondent, Hattersley residents urged to have their say, 10 September 2026. source
14. Place North West, Tameside aims to clear path for 485 affordable homes, 27 November 2025. source
15. Not Really Here Media, Bold new housing plan aims to boost affordable homes, 19 November 2025. source
16. Tameside Council, Procurement (STAR Procurement and The Chest). source
17. Tameside Council, Affordable Home Ownership in Tameside / Registered Provider Partnership. source
18. Homes England, Social and Affordable Homes Programme (SAHP) 2026 to 2036. source
19. Homes England, Apply for grants from SAHP 2026 to 2036: Continuous Market Engagement. source
20. Tameside Council, Social value. source
21. GMCA, Social and Affordable Homes Programme: Greater Manchester priorities (at least 60% Social Rent). source
22. Tameside Council, The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF). source
23. Not Really Here Media, All the Tameside developments coming in 2026. source
24. Tameside Council, Pride in Place Impact Fund. source
25. Tameside Council, Pride in Place funding boost for 12 community projects. source
26. Not Really Here Media, More community projects to benefit from Pride in Place Impact Fund, 26 August 2026. source
27. Tameside Council, Ashton Town Centre. source
28. Tameside Correspondent, Opening date for Ashton's Market Square revealed, 23 March 2026. source
29. Tameside Council, Destination Denton. source
30. Tameside Council, Destination Denton LUF Update, June 2026. source
31. Tameside Correspondent, Council insists Denton's Festival Hall will still have community use after sale, 13 July 2026. source
32. Tameside Council Executive Cabinet, Hattersley Pride in Place Programme, 25 March 2026. source
33. Tameside Council, Tameside Housing Strategy and Strategic Priorities for Action (appendix). source
34. Jigsaw Homes Group, Marking major milestone in Tameside housing development, 17 July 2025. source
35. Jigsaw Homes Group, MP officially opens supported housing scheme in Tameside (Cavendish House). source
36. Find a Tender, Tameside Highways Maintenance Framework pipeline notice. source
37. Willmott Dixon, Tameside College Construction Skills Centre. source
38. Tameside College, College signs off £11m construction centre; apprenticeship employer guide. source
39. The Growth Company, Tameside Skills Centre 25/26. source
40. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme: governance and boundary guidance. source
41. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme prospectus and guidance (Pride in Place Plans). source
42. MHCLG, Levelling Up Fund Round 3: explanatory and methodology note, Technical Annex 5 — list of successful projects (Tameside, Destination Denton, £16,764,793). source
43. MHCLG / Homes England, "Historic council housebuilding comeback to help families into secure homes", published 24 August 2026 — regional funding breakdown giving Greater Manchester £529m estimated Strategic Partnership spend supporting c.4,400 homes. source
44. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme phase 2 place selection methodology note (England list of 146 neighbourhoods; Tameside: Hattersley). source
45. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme phase 2 expansion place selection methodology note, 20 March 2026 (40 English neighbourhoods across 28 authorities; no Tameside neighbourhood). source
46. MHCLG, Pride in Place Impact Fund grant determinations 2025 to 2026 and 2026 to 2027 (Annex A; 94 authorities at £750,000; Tameside listed in both). source · source

Not verified in this edition: the Regulation 19 opening date for Homes, Spaces, Places (the council page still says only "late summer/autumn 2026"); the homes number for the Ashton bus-interchange site; housing numbers at Stalybridge West; any Tameside-specific SAHP allocation (the 25 August 2026 release gives national partner totals only); a 2025/26 or 2026/27 UKSPF allocation for Tameside; and the exact date of the Hattersley outdoor cinema (press gives "Saturday 20 September", which does not match the calendar, and the council page lists no dated events).

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Research update 19 September 2026

• Denton LUF figure reconciled. MHCLG's Levelling Up Fund Round 3 list of successful projects gives Tameside's "Destination Denton" award as £16,764,793. The £16.8m and £16.5m figures in circulation are a rounding and a press error. [42]
• SAHP first-wave partners identified. Homes England's 25 August 2026 release lists all 33 strategic partners outside London. Providers active in Tameside on that list are Jigsaw Homes North, Onward Homes, Great Places and Together Housing; Irwell Valley Homes is not. The release carries national homes and grant totals only, so there is still no Tameside allocation. [2]
• National references re-fetched. Refs 1–3, 18–19, 21 and 40–41 now point to the specific pages rather than organisation landing pages, including the Homes England / National Housing Bank Investment Prospectus 2026, the SAHP and Continuous Market Engagement guidance, the GMCA Good Growth Fund page, the GMCA SAHP priorities page (which is the source for the 60% Social Rent ambition, previously attributed to Homes England) and the Pride in Place governance and Plans guidance.
• Local Plan Regulation 19 still undated. The council's Homes, Spaces, Places page, checked again on 19 September 2026, repeats "late summer/autumn 2026" and publishes no opening date or Regulation 19 documents. [5]
• UKSPF unchanged. The council's UKSPF page still shows only the £1.9m Communities and Place allocation to 31 March 2025, with no 2025/26 or 2026/27 allocation and no open call. [22]
• Still open. The homes number for the Ashton bus-interchange site (absent from both the Ashton Town Centre and Ashton Mayoral Development Zone pages), housing numbers at Stalybridge West (the council page refers only to "preparation of sites … for residential development"), and the exact date of the Hattersley outdoor cinema, which no council page carries.

Verification 19 Sep 2026

• Council land programme corrected. The per-town split did not reconcile with the 13 sites and 485 homes in the headline: it gave three Denton sites and 121 homes, totalling 12 sites and 456 homes. Denton has four sites and 150 homes (Capesthorne Walk and Circular Road 67, Greswell 39, Corrie 29, Festival Hall 15), which makes 13 sites and 485 homes. The full published site list, the minimum 60% social rent requirement, the just-under-£250,000 of Section 106 money available and the nine surplus / four to-be-declared split are now included. [14]
• Pride in Place amounts unsummed and cohorts separated. "Ashton-under-Lyne and Hattersley each have £20m" was wrong: Ashton is a phase one place with £19.53m plus £0.600m capacity funding; Hattersley is a phase two neighbourhood with £20m plus £0.15m capacity funding. The brief now states that phase one places have no Pride in Place Plan deadline, so neither 30 November 2026 nor 26 February 2027 applies to Ashton, and that Tameside has no neighbourhood in the phase 2 expansion named 20 March 2026. New sources [44,45].
• Ashton first-phase table reconciled. The 12 listed projects sum to £2.898m, not the £3.198m in the text; the difference is £0.300m of programme management costs. The table now carries a sub-total, a management-costs row and a total, all read from Table 1 of the 18 March 2026 board report. The report's own §3.3 says "£6.358m", which contradicts its Table 1 (£3.198m + £3.460m = £6.658m); the table figure is used. The separate £0.600m capacity allocation and its £0.255m of committed projects are noted as a different pot. [11]
• £529m / c.4,400 homes re-sourced to MHCLG's press release of 24 August 2026, which carries the regional funding breakdown; the Homes England release of 25 August 2026 does not. New source [43].
• Godley Green developer identified. MADE Partnership is a joint venture between Barratt Redrow plc, Homes England and Lloyds Banking Group, confirmed on the scheme's own site, which also records the summer 2024 delivery agreement and the infrastructure / serviced-parcel model.
• Newly marked "not verified": the Godley Green figures of 363 affordable homes (about 17%) and near-£29m Section 106 including £13m for a primary school. These come from local press reporting of the committee decision; neither godleygreen.co.uk nor the council publishes them.
• Ashton live opportunity added. The council's Ashton Town Centre page has an open expression-of-interest call for ten new Market Square kiosks (markets@tameside.gov.uk) and gives ashton.publicrealm@tameside.gov.uk for public-realm enquiries; both are added to the contacts table. The page also confirms the Market Hall £250,000 as UKSPF/FLAG funding, and is flagged as carrying an out-of-date construction narrative (temporary trading at Fletcher Square, works to March 2026).
• Still open after a further search: the Ashton bus-interchange homes number; Stalybridge West housing numbers; the Hattersley outdoor cinema date (the council's Hattersley page lists no dated events, and the only press date, "Saturday 20 September", is a Sunday in 2026); a Tameside-specific SAHP allocation; a 2025/26 or 2026/27 UKSPF allocation.

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