[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

So the answer then is to knock them down and do what with the land?
Build shoe box properties at prices that no-one can affordto buy?

Yes, there were bad people in those properties ten years ago...so has nothing been learned from that experience?
Does the bad experience have to mean that decent people who want homes should be penalised for the wrongdoings of those who came 10 years before?
No Margaret, but history repeats itself, I've lived in Accrington for over 80 years, lived in the same house for the past 50, and also seen clearances before, and it doesn't take long for the landlords to start letting to same standard of tenants, because they are sure of their rents form the Social services, and sod those who want to live in peace & quiet
If we want to get rid of those unmentionable people then we need to look at where they nestle in the town.......the focus for them, is Abbey St.

Even getting rid of Maundy Grange wouldn't solve the problem, its been to long established and some one else would open another similar establishment, probably in Church St.
The real problem is a minority of do gooders who don't have to live with the problems their views cause.