The Coalville Estate is in Weston Coyney, Stoke-on-Trent and was originally made up of 406 pre-fabricated houses (a number of these properties have since been demolished as part of the regeneration scheme), which were built by the National Coal Board (NCB) in 1954 to provide homes for the mining community, and were intended to last about 15 years. In the early 1980’s, the NCB sold these properties by auction, to existing tenants and private landlords.
Decline
In the mid 1980’s the concrete used in the construction of the properties was found to be defective. This rendered the houses “unmortgageable”. As a consequence means tested grants were made available to owner occupiers to meet the costs required to return the properties to a mortgageable standard.
This resulted in approximately 150 houses being improved. The other houses however, remained unmortgageable and were sold largely to private investors, which resulted in the ill-management of some tenancies.
Consequently in the 1990s, residents became concerned over the declining quality and image of the estate and the detrimental effect this was having on the housing market, and so formed the Coalville Partnership. The estate was targeted for a drastic regeneration and remodelling.
