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"Proposals that focus only on demolition do not fit with the pathfinder approach and will not be funded by ODPM"

John Prescott (Yorkshire Post 25 July 2005)

"I am committed to ensuring that in the eventuality of any demolition they will get full market value for their houses."

Middlesbrough MP Sir Stuart Bell (Daily Telegraph 21 October 2005)

Approximate Average Acquisition Price Paid

PHASE

Purchase

Price

Phase 1a: Warren, Weverley etc

£47,100

Phase 1b: Kingston, Diamond

£49,750

Phase 2: Gems, Amber, Pearl, Emerald

£51,800

Phase 3: Finsbury, Glebe, Outram

£58,250

"I therefore personally guarantee that every current owner-occupier of a house earmarked for demolition will be offered a house of similar or better standard in the inner Middlesbrough area if that is what they wish. Homeowners will be paid full market value for their homes calculated as if no demolition plans existed."

Middlesbrough Mayor Ray Mallon (Evening Gazette 11 August 2005)

RECENT SALES WHERE 'DEMOLITION DOES NOT EXIST'

Location

Purchase

Price

Completion

Date

30 Albany Street, Middlesbrough, TS1 4DB

£75,000

9 February 2007

52 Clifton Street, Middlesbrough, TS1 4BY

£72,500

11 April 2007

74 Clifton Street, Middlesbrough, TS1 4BY

£70,000

28 February 2007

34 Bow Street, Middlesbrough, TS1 4BT

£60,000

29 March 2007

89 Aire Street, Middlesbrough, TS1 4PG

£80,000

16 March 2007

31 Chester Street, Middlesbrough, TS1 4NW

£90,000

29 March 2007

24 Athol Street, Middlesbrough, TS1 4NF

£90,000

16 April 2007

64 Crescent Road, Middlesbrough, TS1 4QP

£97,000

18 May 2007


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40 streets – thousands of homes and families – the community – BETRAYED!!!

     

THE DISASTER PLAN – A RESPONSE

     

This plan will rip the heart out of the centre of Middlesbrough. Where in the plan is there a mention of affordable houses to replace lost homes?

     

What part of this is in common with sustainable communities? Most people in my street have lived there for at least 20 years!

     

I suspect that all along there has been a hidden agenda.

     

Look to the streets to be pulled down and those that will survive and you can clearly make out the real intention:

     

Access roads to a new shopping area that will extend the length Linthorpe Rd.

     

The streets immediately behind, the new walking st of Linthorpe Rd , will be demolished to make way for deliver vehicle access:Amber, Pelham and Tennyson Streets.

     

Portman and Pearl will have to go to make way for car parks.

     

Perhaps even more unfortunate Falkland, Finsbury and Kingston removed from the landscape to make way for approach roads.

     

What is this to do with ‘putting people first’? Certainly a few power brokers and their associates have put themselves FIRST.

     

40 streets – thousands of homes and families – the community – BETRAYED!!!

     

We the residents and our website:

     

www.homeregeneration.com

     

will fight on.

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