[MargaretR]

I think maybe he is contemplating whether to make a b-with-us bid for a Belfield Rd house on offer.
The (ex)council estate part of Belfield Rd is uphill and away from the terraced housing and maybe has differing disadvantages.

The b-with-us scheme now advertises social housing rental vacancies in a wide area of East Lancs

PS when I was a social security visiting officer about 20 years ago, that estate did house problem families, and the adjacent Rothwell Ave was nicknamed Brothel Ave - but things may have changed.