rocket123
1:33 PM on January 25, 2012
Took my boy to look at our old house in The Vale, very sad to see it in such a state. I had some great times living there it seemed so much bigger then, nice people as neighbous as well we used to camp in the front garden, can you imagine doing that now?
PredatorDrone
1:59 PM on January 25, 2012
Anyone wonder where the £125 million they have had to date, has gone.
To tackle deprivation, we still have 16 wards classed as deprived areas.
As soon as MBC gets their hands on a few bob, they rush out to waste it.
No wonder the Tories are putting the blocks on them.
tripehound
2:40 PM on January 25, 2012
Most town and city councils do their best to build up their towns.
Not Middlesbrough
Ever since that nice architect Mr Poulson knocked on the town hall doors in the nineteen sixties we have seen nothing but destruction and jerry building.
No wonder Mr Mallon refuses to live in the town.
darkcloud
2:46 PM on January 25, 2012
The houses should have been refurbished and then given to decent tenants or sold privately, the problem isnt the houses nice and solid not the cardboard ones built today.
Erimus is continuing to make the same mistakes, by lettin g the houses here to undesirables who blight the area, it anly takes one in an area and they seem like a magnet to trouble.
Decimus
3:38 PM on January 25, 2012
Like the cat that got the cream,
http://www.erimushousing.co.uk/about_board.php
finnsgran
3:55 PM on January 25, 2012
A wee look at the Erimus board tells all. What's more they can't even keep their website up to date it is still showing what regeneration they are hoping to do by the end of 2010........doesn't bode well when the rest of us are working in 2012.
PredatorDrone
5:09 PM on January 25, 2012
"These homes will be part of wider regeneration which envisages hundreds of new homes being built in Grove Hill"
I like the word ENVISAGES, I recall Mallon way back in 2002 envisaging in Grove Hill, on a bull dozer, the same envisaging he had for Gresham/Middlehaven and St. Hildas. Not well up on the visionary aspects, is Mallon and MBC.
PredatorDrone
5:37 PM on January 25, 2012
No sign of Mallon in the cab, maybe gone off to get his braces adjusted.
PredatorDrone
6:00 PM on January 25, 2012
6000 on the waiting list.
10 YEARS AGO IN THE EVENING GAZETTE.
"Housing Associations bussing 2000 immigrants into Teesside"
EG WED 18/2012
Bubba
6:21 PM on January 25, 2012
Is there an artist's impression of what the scheme might look like? If there isn't, then there is something the council aren't telling us.
Bubba
6:24 PM on January 25, 2012
It would be better to have no houses at all. Just nice landscaping.
Decimus
7:10 PM on January 25, 2012
Artist impression of Erimus scheme,
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=dwarf+ ... r:20,s:142
EasyC
7:34 PM on January 25, 2012
Was it not RM 'The Mayor Of Middlesbrough' who openly stated in a radio interview with tfm last year on the subject of Grove-Hill that, "The Only Way To Get Rid Of Riff-Raff is to knock the houses down they live in", Come On How Pathetic MBC.
Then he supported Selective Licensing in Gresham, passing the buck to the landlord for which i imagine will save the council loads? not for real. Wonder why Selective Licensing wouldnt of worked in Grove-Hill 5 years ago, maybe simply because it was social housing? ran by ex's of the in-crowd.
Indie
8:30 PM on January 25, 2012
tripehound - you are mistaken about Erimus. It is part of the Fabrik Housing Group - a non-for profit making housing organisation and to say the houses now belong to the staff who used to run the council;'s housing department is utter rubbish.
bigredders
9:25 PM on January 25, 2012
We are a hard working, law abiding couple with two children who moved into Grove Hill in 2005, a stones throw from the houses pictured. We came from the south of England and had no idea what Grove Hill was like, we just needed a house as our circumstances were difficult. Erimus gave us the opportunity to rent a lovely solid house with three good sized bedroom rooms, utility room and central heating, with a promise of improvements to follow (now done). We thought it was a dream come true........until it was shattered by just two families and their uncontrolled kids. We lasted a year having had the car done five times, the house burgled (by the next door neighbour...twice) and vandalism, abuse etc. BUT the MAJORITY of our neighbours gave no trouble and just wanted to live their lives in peace and security. You can tear down as many good houses as you like (AND THEY ARE GOOD) but until you deal with the minority, nothing will change.....
Indie
10:52 PM on January 25, 2012
banjo - I am a single Mother and I have never ever been in troublle with the law. I have two children both have been to University and have good careers now. I have always worked and paid my way - taxes and all. It was the labour government who decided to increase the benefit system year after year banjo - now we are paying the price for that.
ackyhallboy
1:35 AM on January 26, 2012
I lived in 40 City Rd from birth virtually, then with my Grandmother in 73 Valley Rd, my other Grandmother lived in Byrneside. Our neighbours were hard working decent people. The girl next door became a doctor and the midwife lived three doors up. Not to mention Cloughie who lived just up the road. I looked at Valley Rd on Google earth and they seemed OK. Surely they are not going to pull them down. I would really like to come back to the Boro (from Western Australia) but some things in these (and other) letters right puts me off.
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