Over ten years ago a group of local people were working
towards encouraging the people of Miles Platting to become more of a community.
There were initiatives for many community projects. One such project which began
then and is still a going concern was the Community Building Project.
An estate action group registered this new community business
as a company limited by guarantee. Since then their progression has been steady,
building them up to the successful enterprise they are now. From when the Trading
office opened in Miles Platting in 1992, they built up the business and established,
manned guarding services in North and East Manchester, mobile patrol and alarm
services, conversion of a derelict site to an enterprise park in Beswick, the
Oldham Road Business Watch, a community ironworks in Openshaw and a community
building company in Moston.
In 1999 The Eagleye surveillance systems were developed, from
there the CCTV network for East Manchester was set up and the new Control Room
for Sports City and East Manchester.
Community Building and Community Security are now both
separate Ltd Companies with a healthy turnover, trading in their own right.
It is now 2003 and the business has celebrated ten years of success not only
in Miles Platting but in each of the areas mentioned. How refreshing to report
on success stories instead of being negative about our community! All too often
the people, projects and initiatives that are successful are overlooked and
the bad things about the area are headline news. So congratulations and well
done to the people who stuck with it and made the ‘from little acorn springs
the mighty oak’ dream come true.
Kathryn Bates
