A TROUBLED Farnworth estate is set for a major facelift.
Housing chiefs are planning to make the New Bury area their top priority.
The cash for the work would come from the Government's Single Regeneration Budget.
This is an £11.25 million windfall which has been given to Bolton and Salford councils to transform the Farnworth and Little Hulton areas.
The news was welcomed by residents on the estate.
Dorothy Paterson who represents the Bolton Affiliation of Tenants' Associations, said: "I am really pleased about this. This used to be a nice area.
"But nothing has been spent on the houses for years and the whole area has deteriorated.
"This will improve the area and make it somewhere people would want to live again."
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