I am writing about the continuing rape of the Wargrave Estate, Newton. The council is demolishing people's homes so that it can hive off the land to develop and lower the existing house debt currently running at some £53 million. This debt occurred over some years by bad housing management. Any privately-run organisation would have been shut down years ago, but no, this shambles keeps rolling along. How can a council get this much in debt after getting more grants than the Millennium Dome?
The pillaging of the Wargrave Estate has gone on for years. Perfectly good homes left empty and boarded up. At present there are some 145 voids on the estate, all boarded up, at a cost of £10,000 plus, per week. When you look around the other council estates in the borough and see just how many houses are boarded up for one reason or another you are talking about vast amounts of money.
Of course there are houses on the Wargrave Estate that need demolishing, we tenants admit that, but to designate three areas for demolishing is ludicrous, and beggars belief. Incidentally, the council wants to re-house us in homes that have been empty for years, after doing a quick make-over. How can the council expect people who live in homes they have spent thousands of pounds on, to then go and live in hovels?
The answer to the council is 'we shall not be moved'.
AGAINST INJUSTICE
Newton-le-Willows
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