Film Number

7609

Title

HULME DECK ACCESS CONFERENCE - PART 6

Producer

WFA

Date

1985

Gauge

U-matic LB

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Running Time

22 mins 17 secs

Description

Footage from a major national conference in response to the increasingly intractable problems faced by tenants of deck access, high-rise system housing and the inability of Local Authorities to deal with them satisfactorily. Held in the midst of Manchester's main deck access estate, Hulme (possibly Birley High School Hall), attended by 35 Local Authorities and 40 Tenants' Associations.
Afternoon workshops. Harry Sherwood, a Gretney Walk tenant, leads a workshop discussion about the Gretney Walk film and other tenants talk about their own problems.
In another workshop tenants talk about how the population structure has changed with students now occupying the Hulme deck access flats and the impact this has on tenant participation and willingness to spend money on their homes. All agree that that it is best to start with smaller pilot schemes to see how they work before launching into large scale schemes.

[Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]