Film Number

7608

Title

HULME DECK ACCESS CONFERENCE - PART 5

Producer

WFA

Date

1985

Gauge

U-matic LB

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Running Time

22 mins 19 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. A Hulme tenant speaks to a group about how officers disregarded tenants' opinions and how in 1983 there was a suicide which was compounded by serious cuts in heating, electricity. Tenants started to get together following this. Others share their experiences of forming tenants' groups. In another workshop an officer from Bonhamy estate talks about the planning needed to construct new kinds of tenancies.

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