RESIDENTS on a trouble-hit estate are to have their quality of life improved as part of a £160,000 regeneration project.

The lower end of Carisbrooke Avenue, in Thorntree, was identified as a risk area by Middlesbrough Council after suffering repeated episodes of anti-social behaviour.

Community volunteers made a successful bid for £80,000 from the authority's risk management fund, which was then match-funded through the European Regional Development Fund.

The cash is being spent on steel fencing, hardstandings, lay-bys and exterior improvements to 20 houses.

Campaigner Peter Purvis said: "This project has been going on for two years. It has been a lot of hard work, but worth it.

"A lot of people in the area were being terrorised by neighbours, but they were too frightened to report them. Once they moved, we thought it was time to do something about the area and that was when the project started.

"I am over the moon to see the workers on site, it is absolutely brilliant."