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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

It is a crying shame. The area has gone steadily downhill over the years...and just when the people who live there thought they had a chance of being spruced up, the rug is pulled from under them because the funds are no longer there.
I am sure the people of Woodnook feel very let down by the powers that be.

Woodnook was made a conservation area back in the 1970's, we got funding, and money was spent doing the area up, we had several projects brought to a halt, there was 230,000 quid left in the pot, when the gas board, and the water board stepped in, the water board came with an tale that every house had to have its own connection to the mains, even though the water supplies were good, they dug up a lot of the new pavements, justifying their existance. Gas Board did the same, new pipes coming up the front wall of the house, the slipshod repairs they made to the paving, looks like it were done by a chap in a rowing boat.
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