NewsGreater Manchester NewsThe Mancunian WayPLUS: The flats where pigeons outnumber people17:22, 07 Jul 2026Updated 17:23, 07 Jul 2026HelloIn the middle of Orsdall sits this patch of fenced-off waste land. Originally it was a shopping precinct and a primary school.‌After they were both demolished around 30 years ago, it became a kind of unplanned, rough-round-the-edges beauty spot. Now it looks, in the words of one disgruntled neighbour, ‘like a nuclear holocaust’.‌But this wasn’t the plan. It should be home to hundreds of people living on tree-lined streets on a brand new eco-friendly estate.‌And now questions being asked about what’s behind the delays in the building of more than 270 homes on the land off Robert Hall Street in a scheme being managed by the council's development company D