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Originally Posted by Bagpuss
Over to you Charlie please continue this debate we await your response.
For the record I am not a tory I vote for who I think would represent my family and the area I live in the best, at the moment that would be Graham Jones (Labour) who just happened to be who I voted for the last time.
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Thanks Bagpuss and I'll carry on giving it my best... Always ready to sit and listen over a pint... you'll find me up the Peel Park often. There should be another newsletter going out in the next fortnight about whats going on Peel.
In short housing is dictated by ELEVATE and the Council and its ongoing long term. In the short term I have tried to do the usual things and concentrate external funding on the green areas of Peel Park/Arden Hall/brown field sites. In 18 months we have probably reached £110,000 funding so far. £45l PP/£65k AH.
High priority has been housing [EH], cleansing, roads and street lighting. There are also some other bigger projects. Local shops [which have declined], pref. co-ops and pref. with health foods, local produce. With govt help and residents Development Trust with the help of a HA as well [Accent?]. Setting up the NM board is vital in pulling the area back together. This is nearly done.
The major problem is the poor are getting poorer and the rich richer and rather than democracy, quango-itus is vogue.
However we try and will reverse this and [modern/part by part let] social housing is a top priority in wiping out landlords and clearing slum housing. And a draconian clampdown on those that dont want to co-operate [as asking them never works] in making the town better; ie A Zero Tolerance appoach [as we have clearly stated] on dog fouling, litter, fly tipping, dirty back yards, slum/cheapskate landlords, nusiance neighbours, dirty business's & other dodgy activities such as fraud, misrepresentation and breach of planning [particulalry by business's]. Hence we need at least 24 wardens and aclose relationship with the police. We are looking into the possibility of training 'special' wardens like the police.