Housing

My old house – a snapshot of the post-regeneration landscape

John P Houghton revisits the problem of empty homes and calls for imaginative local solutions as regeneration winds down and resources dry up

John Houghton’s childhood home in Kirkby, 12 months ago (left) and now (right).

I first wrote about my old house in January 2011. I’d been back to Kirkby, my home town in Merseyside, for Christmas and was shocked to find that the place I’d called home for most of childhood was an empty, vandalised wreck.

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Salford is not a cosy garden suburb; it is a complex ever changing working class city that is determined to transform itself. What happened during the disturbances is not how we want to be portrayed but we will learn and create a stronger city.