A house for a pound in Stoke.

[Gramaisc]

In Portland Street, Cobridge, S-O-T - yours for a quid - if you agree to do it up..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-19433595

Portland Street.

 

[tek-monkey]

Perfectly timed, as you can now get 6 months inside for squatting!

EDIT: Just read it, and am confused. Lots of these houses were compulsory purchased, now we aren't demolishing them so we'll sell them for a quid and offer cheap loans to do them up. Why the **** don't the council do them up using the money for the cheap loans and use them as council houses? There are 5000 houses FFS!

 

[tek-monkey]

Why not buy them all in that street, knock them together so each house is twice as big, knock the front out of one side for a garage and you have some at least 4 bedroom houses with garages that have cost you 2 quid each plus work involved (which can come out of the 30k loans per house). If all the houses in the street are the same, you'll have less scutters about and the house prices for the street will rise.

 

[Roland]

Unbelieveable, but then who would want to live in Stoke!

 

[Jonah]

Bit over priced isn't it?

 

[Thehooperman]

You could buy the street and turn them into shops to create the first pound shop shopping centre

 

[Withnail]

Just got around to reading this -
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/23/thriving-potteries-the-rebirth-of-stoke-on-trent
- interesting follow-up if you have a spare moment.

 

[John Marwood]

Stoke may have some creative people, Stoke may have some hard working people, but what Stoke is not doing is

Booming





"A fantastic recruitment ground for the army"

 

[Carole]

So how many of you have been up to Stoke recently?


Yes, the places like Cobridge, and indeed Stoke centre, leave much to be desired but there are lovely parts of the area just a few miles away that have beautiful countryside.

It's a bit like someone saying that Stafford is awful because they focus on Highfilelds or Rising Brook ..when in fact Rowley Park is only a walk away.


Don't knock an area until you know it, have lived it, or had experience of it.

The people of Stoke will engage you in conversation, will welcome you, will wrap you up in so much goodwill and warmth.....just like those of Stafford.

Why are people so judgmental?

 

[Sir BoD]

So how many of you have been up to Stoke recently?


Yes, the places like Cobridge, and indeed Stoke centre, leave much to be desired but there are lovely parts of the area just a few miles away that have beautiful countryside.

It's a bit like someone saying that Stafford is awful because they focus on Highfilelds or Rising Brook ..when in fact Rowley Park is only a walk away.


Don't knock an area until you know it, have lived it, or had experience of it.

The people of Stoke will engage you in conversation, will welcome you, will wrap you up in so much goodwill and warmth.....just like those of Stafford.

Why are people so judgmental?

Because Staffordians are glorified snobs, that's why. Bloody hell, even the term Staffordian sounds snobbish. I'm born and bred here but have moved away a couple of times, so I can see the place from an outsiders' point of view. That said, I love the place and wouldn't want to move anywhere else. I'm not keen on Stoke - but it's just a feeling rather than anything in particular. In fact, it reminds me a lot of Manchester back in the 80s before the hipsters moved in. I think Stoke is a huge investment opportunity. There are swathes of land across the city that are waiting to be regenerated, if only somebody would take a punt.

 

[John Marwood]

So how many of you have been up to Stoke recently?


Yes, the places like Cobridge, and indeed Stoke centre, leave much to be desired but there are lovely parts of the area just a few miles away that have beautiful countryside.

It's a bit like someone saying that Stafford is awful because they focus on Highfilelds or Rising Brook ..when in fact Rowley Park is only a walk away.


Don't knock an area until you know it, have lived it, or had experience of it.

The people of Stoke will engage you in conversation, will welcome you, will wrap you up in so much goodwill and warmth.....just like those of Stafford.

Why are people so judgmental?

Was in Hanley last week

The crazees have built a second civic centre so they now have two ( but staff only for half of one ) - cost so far £60 million

The crazees also spent a million trying to move HS2 from Crewe to Stoke despite clear advice that it was a waste of money

But the crazees get elected, and re elected, time after time, and the only people doing that are the people of Stoke

 

[Frontal]

So how many of you have been up to Stoke recently?

I go upto Stoke regularly, and have a great many friends up there. There are a lot of lovely people.

That said, every single one of them is trying to move out. The job market there is fairly dry, and many area's have become something of a dumping ground for council tenants, who are promptly forgotten about and left to languish.

So many places have closed down there, that even terrible jobs are getting swamped with applicants - in that sort of job market the wages and job security are rock bottom.

Added to all that, in the happiness index research study (which I still believe was a waste of money) Stoke ranked amid the most unhappy places in the country - it is quantifiably proven to not be a happy place to live.

 

[tek-monkey]

But the university poll said everyone prefers Stoke, why else would they leave Stafford? Unless its because students are more likely to require hospital treatment and they can't afford the travel.

 

[Frontal]

But the university poll said everyone prefers Stoke, why else would they leave Stafford? Unless its because students are more likely to require hospital treatment and they can't afford the travel.

As a former chairperson for a large student society, I have spoken to a lot of students and have personally yet to meet one who says they would prefer Stoke.

To the contrary, I have spoken to several disabled alumni who have outright said that they would not have attended Stoke on Trent, as the general small town-ness was the main attraction of Stafford Uni.


-Edit, that is not to say that many don't care either way, student apathy is likely a large factor.

 

[John Marwood]

As a former chairperson for a large student society, I have spoken to a lot of students and have personally yet to meet one who says they would prefer Stoke.

To the contrary, I have spoken to several disabled alumni who have outright said that they would not have attended Stoke on Trent, as the general small town-ness was the main attraction of Stafford Uni.


-Edit, that is not to say that many don't care either way, student apathy is likely a large factor.

So the most popular courses at the University are the ones in Stafford

Staffs Uni wanted to demolish the octagon and sell the land for housing

Stafford Borough Council didn't want the University to leave the town so rejected the proposal for housing

The nursing course will remain at Blackheath Lane



Any truth in any of that lot?

 

[Gramaisc]

The nursing course will remain at Blackheath Lane

That bit is true - for the time being.

 

[Frontal]

So the most popular courses at the University are the ones in Stafford

No clue on the exact numbers of individual courses, but given there are more students in Stoke I question the relevance of that particular statistic (ie individual course versus campus size).

Staffs Uni wanted to demolish the octagon and sell the land for housing

From the meetings I attended I never heard this. but I was only in the consultations.

Stafford Borough Council didn't want the University to leave the town so rejected the proposal for housing

Again, not something I have heard, and seems counter intuitive to common sense.

The nursing course will remain at Blackheath Lane

This is true.

 

[John Marwood]

No clue on the exact numbers of individual courses, but given there are more students in Stoke I question the relevance of that particular statistic (ie individual course versus campus size).



From the meetings I attended I never heard this. but I was only in the consultations.



Again, not something I have heard, and seems counter intuitive to common sense.



This is true.

OK time to confess

The first one is correct ( source - girl in the chemist , but she does have the inside track )

The housing thing is the gossip on the Beaconside site , but may well have some validity at least in part

There have been some enquiries into the Beaconside site from a 'health interest business', but nothing concrete

 

[Jonah]

Stafford site is being closed because the some of the Uni top brass don't like having to travel to Stafford for meetings. That's what I've heard.

 

[tek-monkey]

Is it true the site has a limitation on not being used for higher education purposes? No idea where I heard that, could have been that girl in the chemist....