A house where a family of seven live but which stands in the way of a £250 million regeneration scheme is to be forcibly bought by Salford council and bulldozed. Councillors have agreed to go ahead with a compulsory purchase order (CPO) on the home in Holcombe Close, Pendleton.
The terraced houses in the street are boarded up and have been derelict for years, apart from number 14, owned by Demonique Wilson and wife Thabo. The couple, live in the three-bedroom property they bought 14 years ago for £70,000 with their five children, and they say Salford council have offered them £95,000 to move out.
But Mr Wilson argues it would be "impossible" for him to buy a three-bed property in Salford for that money and the only alternatives presented to the family have been rented accommodation.
