The precinct that went from shoppers' paradise to 's***hole' - and its new hope
'Once in a generation' plans were recently submitted to completely redevelop Wythenshawe Civic Centre.
In 1971, the Civic Centre Forum, containing a swimming pool, theatre, public hall and library, opened - completing a modern town centre in a vision of Wythenshawe as a 'garden city' away from industrial Manchester. He told the MEN: "For 30-years or more, the development of Wythenshawe went well. But the economic and industrial decline which began in the 1960s hit the area hard.
By the turn of the millennium, the Forum was under-used and the vast concrete building was costing the taxpayer £1.9m a year. And in 2002 the Forum Theatre, where so many productions had once entertained theatregoers, from Victoria Wood - starring in her own play Talent - to Frank Foo Foo Lammar in The Rocky Horror Show, closed for good.
The aim of the redevelopment work, the council says, is to create a "large new focal point for the local community in a new civic square that celebrates Wythenshawe’s roots as a garden city, developing open areas for planting, trees, and boulevard-style public realm". "We don’t just need food shops, we need clothes shops. We’ve got no indoor market. We used to have the best market going and it was so good people from miles now it’s turned into a s*** hole," said Vera.
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