The Elevate/pheonix scheme

[mani]

just came back from the meeting and listened to the final plans of the scheme.

WHAT A LET DOWN.

oh we'll do this to your houses and do that to your back streets and regenerate the businesses and fix the roofing.

nope its just a sand blast and pointing and its only those ppl who live along blackburn road and countess street. the vast number of houses inbetween wont even be touched as ppl driving into accrington "cant see them"

we'll knock a fwe houses down at the bottom of portland st and steiner st and do a special project there. we'll knock a few houses down opposite the health centre and build a square there for ppl to sit.

those people who have had their full houses refurbished front back and roof have got away with it before elevate changed the rules now they stipulate just fronts.

barely a regeneration for the area.

 

[cashman]

just came back from the meeting and listened to the final plans of the scheme.

WHAT A LET DOWN.

oh we'll do this to your houses and do that to your back streets and regenerate the businesses and fix the roofing.

nope its just a sand blast and pointing and its only those ppl who live along blackburn road and countess street. the vast number of houses inbetween wont even be touched as ppl driving into accrington "cant see them"


those people who have had their full houses refurbished front back and roof have got away with it before elevate changed the rules now they stipulate just fronts.

barely a regeneration for the area.

thats all they are doing to ours mani, their on wi it now, was only phase 1 that got the full monty.

 

[mani]

exactly. oh no elevate changed the rules we cant do this and that.

but at the start - no this is an effort to raise the quality of life in this whole area we'll be considering making bigger houses, new houses if we have to, better parking areas, more play areas, less this more that

they've just taken the cheap way out now that east accrington is "an area of serious concern"

 

[cashman]

exactly. oh no elevate changed the rules we cant do this and that.

but at the start - no this is an effort to raise the quality of life in this whole area we'll be considering making bigger houses, new houses if we have to, better parking areas, more play areas, less this more that

they've just taken the cheap way out now that east accrington is "an area of serious concern"

or perhaps phase 1 was were our councillors relatives live,who knows?

 

[mani]

*LMAO* the phase 1-1 on blackburn road the big houses is where the councillor at the time for labour used to live - he got his block sorted and it was a case of seeya laters folks. then came the lister st/tremellen st to which the bloke at the meeting said was due to the fact them knowing those houses were in good condition and werent going to be knocked down - they were apparently still uncertain about the rest

so the best houses got even better and then they skanked out the rest of them

 

[katex]

So did you express your concerns Mani ? ...

 

[mani]

yeah. i asked the q's but its like every other reply from him was its all elevate's fault for changing the guidance. we'll just have to wait and see if they change the rules again.

 

[cmonstanley]

allegedly a lot of dodgy people made money out of this.personally i think they should have put all the money in a high interest account for 3 years and by that time house prices will be down and they could have done more..private companies private landlords have made a packet out of this it stinks...allegedly

 

[cashman]

allegedly a lot of dodgy people made money out of this.personally i think they should have put all the money in a high interest account for 3 years and by that time house prices will be down and they could have done more..private companies private landlords have made a packet out of this it stinks...allegedly

yeh little birds have a habit of landing on me shoulder end of the day though,bottom line is were getting the fronts done fer bugger all. don't make it right nonetheless.

 

[MargaretR]

Credit crunch hits East Lancashire regeneration (From Lancashire Telegraph)
The Elevate scheme for east Accrington is struggling to find developers to take it on.
Looks like we will have wide open spaces, where there once were houses, for a year or two

 

[derekgas]

That report says that £317 million was funded to elevate from the government, would be nice to see audited accounts for that eh? I said in another thread that some of this funding was dodgy, (eaga and warmfront, which is owned by eaga), we were invited to tender for the warmfront grant works, and initially, they wanted a letter from the bank stating that they had a £25,000 bond, two days later we recieved a letter stating that 25k was the minimum, so even if we had £25k to do this, the actual figure isnt known, therefore, we would have to ask the bank for a letter, gauranteeing a bond for an amount which eaga have not yet decided on.. sure the bank will say yes! , so warmfront will continue to do much more than the 20% of the grants initially allowed, and the profits will line the pockets of whoever is behind it all.

 

[accyman]

how many times are they going to get free sandblasting along blackburn road? , I can recall them been done twice in the last 10 years

give the poor sods around the back streets a treat for once

ps:

i dont live anywhere near there so im not angling for a free sand blast i just think its not fair for the same people to repeatedly get things free

 

[Mick]

If you go down the back streets ie countess st you will see they are sand blasting a lot of the side streets too

 

[Benipete]

There's scaffolding up around the "new" houses,what's that all about?

 

[Atarah]

Blackburn Road area

Here are some up to date photos of the new properties now built along the Blackburn Road area, from Lonsdale Street corner. This is where all the smashing terraced houses which had done our town proud for over a 100 years once stood.

 

[mobertol]

Re: Blackburn Road area

Here are some up to date photos of the new properties now built along the Blackburn Road area, from Lonsdale Street corner. This is where all the smashing terraced houses which had done our town proud for over a 100 years once stood.

Can't say I like the style, why on earth are they building balconies on houses in the North of England, completely out of character. What a shame the old buildings weren't just rennovated. I used to go to the surgery on Blackburn Rd., not far along from the corner of Lonsdale St., as a child -Dr.Harbinson's -it was a lovely stone built house and I remember it still had a lot of original features in -fireplaces etc.

 

[Wynonie Harris]

Outright vandalism. Ugly concrete boxes to replace craftsman-built stone houses which would've lasted for another 100 years or more.

Why are those in charge so determined to ruin my old home town one way and another?

 

[Atarah]

Hi Mobertol, was this the doctors you meant?

 

[accyman]

Re: Blackburn Road area

Can't say I like the style, why on earth are they building balconies on houses in the North of England, completely out of character.

aye but you cant beat sitting out on a balcony sipping on a fine chardenay whilst looking out over solid jammed rush hour traffic until dusk with bored drivers peering into your windows while they wait to move that few extra feet before the lights go back to red lol

some people will buy anything and these houses prove it lol

 

[mobertol]

Hi Mobertol, was this the doctors you meant?

Yes, thanks for that Atarah -is it still there?

It's a fantastic building -hope it hasn't been bull-dozed!

Apart from going to the Docs -used to pass along that way a lot as my Grandparents lived on Exchange Street (top of Lonsdale St.). I saw Exchange St. was a bit run down last time I passed it a few yrs sgo -I think a lot of the properties were being rented out (my Grandparents house definitely was.)