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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE
My friend had a beautiful house in the Woodnook area and got nowhere near what she should have when she sold. Why are certain areas just left to deteroriate?
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Empty properties infect an area like cancer.
It leads to people selling out to irresponsible property developers from out of town who couldn't give a toss. In turn, no one wants to buy a house in a high rental area so the chain continues and ripples outwards, all from one block of rotten houses.
We have one block in Rishton at the moment about 20 yards from my house and it has dragged the area down over 8 years to the point where almost one third of the ward is affected. Unfortunately, it's an extremely costly exercise to demolish them although it's hard to see that when you're on the receiving end of the upshot.
Hyndburn needs strict regulation on rental properties (which only about five wards currently have) and since the run-in period is at least 18 months before it can be rolled out to other areas it seems that some of us are in for a long wait before things get better.