After builders cleaning in Tameside

Across Tameside 34.1% of households live in a terrace, 38.6% in a semi, 12.0% in a detached house and 15.2% in a flat; 61.1% own their home, 17.5% rent privately and 21.2% rent from a council or housing association (Census 2021). The typical job is a terrace or a semi after a new kitchen, a back extension or a refit before a let. Dust from that work does not stay in the room where it was made. It is on the stair carpet, along the top of every door and inside the kitchen units, and it keeps falling for hours, so the crew dusts each room twice and does the floors last.

New homes will add handover cleans. The council's draft Homes, Spaces, Places Local Plan provides for at least 9,700 homes between 2022 and 2042, mostly on brownfield land and in town centres. In August 2026 the cabinet backed a Mayoral Development Corporation for the Ashton-under-Lyne and Stalybridge town centres, Ashton Moss and Guide Bridge, aimed at more than 3,000 homes. Near Hyde, the council resolved in March 2026 to grant consent for up to 2,150 homes at Godley Green Garden Village over about 15 years. Smaller schemes include 35 affordable flats on the old baths site in Denton and 160 affordable homes planned in Droylsden.

A skip on the highway needs a council permit for up to two weeks, and the skip may not stand on a footpath. On 24 October 2026 the council listed the permit at £28 for a skip firm on its register and £114 for one that is not; joining the register costs £130 a year. A skip found without a permit brings a non-permit fee of £84 for a registered firm or £169 for an unregistered one. A scaffold on the highway needs a permit too, listed at £211 for a firm off the register, and a scaffolder joining the register must show at least £5 million of public liability cover. A hoarding needs the council's ad hoc hoarding permit before it goes up, with at least £10 million of cover. That is all the builder's paperwork; by the cleaning day the skip and scaffold should be gone or clear of the door.

Since 9 June 2025 every council car park, in Ashton, Denton, Droylsden, Dukinfield, Hyde, Mossley and Stalybridge, has been free for up to two hours Monday to Saturday before 6pm, though you still need a ticket. Up to three hours costs £1 and all day £4. The crew's van stays for the whole job, so with no drive or free street nearby, expect an all-day ticket, passed on at cost.

Since 2 October 2025 a borough-wide direction means every conversion to a house in multiple occupation needs planning permission, small HMOs for three to six people included. A landlord planning a conversion should have permission in hand before the builders start, and book the clean once the fire doors and alarms are in.

Conservation areas include Ashton Town Centre, Stalybridge Town Centre, Mottram in Longdendale, Portland Basin and Fairfield. Original windows, tiled hallways and old timber in those streets get careful hand cleaning, and the crew says on the day if a mark will not come off safely. Before planning an alteration anywhere in the borough, the council's online Permitted Developments Index shows what rights currently apply to a property, by street and town.