What this city needs.

HOUSING.

  Like everything else these morons have touched, housing in Stoke-on-Trent is in a pathetic condition.

 Charged with renewing the housing stock, this city council have failed abjectly to do so, leaving the city with less houses than it started with!

Labours attempts at improving the housing stock seem to have taken a wrong turn!

 

   And what few vacant properties the council have are given to outsiders who get to jump the housing list and go straight into a property whilst 11,000 people  have to wait in a queue!
 When you are lucky enough to get a house, the chances are you will have serious scum as near neighbours through the councils diabolical allocations policy.

 Tenants have a long list of rules and regulations in the tenancy agreement, which they must meet, and continue to do so, yet where are the councils obligations and responsibilities to the tenants?
 Where are the rules and regulations the council have to follow?

 As a tenant, you are not allowed to behave in a criminal manner as it lowers the quality of life of those around you, but along come the council and stick in some right scumbag who turns the area into a crime ridden dump, and nothing is done!
 Why are the council placing these kinds of people in our communities? How does this help to build a stronger community? Why put these people in, then have to go to the expense of gathering evidence for 6 months to get them out?
Surely to God ,the smart move is not to house them in the first place?!

  This city needs to clean up its image if it wants to succeed, and allocations is the first place to start on that journey.

  There has been a terrible outcry over the demolition of character filled terraced houses in and around the city, but one look at them highlights the point they are not up to scratch for the 21st century, but instead of knocking them all down- and there was nothing wrong with most of them-, if you knock down every third house, you change them from terraced to semi's, you retain the character of the buildings, and most important of all, you provide space for off road parking to clear the streets of vehicles!
 This is such an effective, and financially efficient way, of providing housing fit for this century without having to blow £millions, that it beggars belief that it wasn't used to save Middleport, Longport, and Northwood.

  As a member of the Potteries Community Federation, and as a representative of the England First Party, I have been in contact for several years now, with a national house building company that is right at the forefront of technical innovation with it's super efficient insallation and board design.
 Having spoken to them on numerous occasions, they wrote out a dummy contract for me that would have had two and three bed bungalows built to wind and waterproof for £9000!

 The boards, which are pre-constructed, are so energy efficient, they can negate the need for central heating! That's the kind of innovation we should be looking to, that would make a huge difference to pensioners on a limited income.

  They have now gone and made specific designs for social housing.  If we have to invite companies in to rebuild housing in the city, this is who we should be inviting to do it, and with a big enough contract, we could get them to make the panels here in the city, using some of the local workforce to construct them

  It is using imagination that will highlight us as a city council, and it is being highlighted that will bring us to the attention of businesses and investors looking for a place to do business, this is how we will start to improve the reputation of the city. Combined with a zero tolerance policy on anti-social behaviour, we can improve the quality of life for those living in council housing across the city, and the cleaner it becomes, the better its reputation becomes, the easier it will become to fill up the vacancies in our communities with decent, law abiding people.

 All these things are tied together, yet get one of these things right, it will have a knock on effect throughout the other areas, get them wrong, and you only have to look at the state this city is now in to know just what a disastrous effect it can have on peoples lives.

 This is what the England First Party will push for, clearing our communities of scum, improving the allocations system, improving the quality of life for the citizens.

contact us at; efpstoke@gmail.com

Immigrants, drug dealers, pikeys,paedophiles. These are the people who get housed first!

  There is a 12,000 long waiting list for council houses in the city of Stoke-on-Trent, so how come the city council only seem to house immigrants, drug dealers, pikeys, and paedophiles?

  There isn't a council estate that isn't in the process of being ravaged by scum, so why are the city council inflicting this on us? As we have a duty to uphold the tenancy agreement, surely the city council have a duty to the decent, law abiding council tenants?
  It would appear not.

   England First Party Stoke-on-Trent Division would like to see a local lettings policy, and for Residents Associations to be given the right to veto the housing of certain people within their area. Why the city council feel the need to house some of the scum that we get foisted on us, God only knows, but it isn't good enough.
  With 12,000 people to choose from, how about giving us some decent, non-criminal sorts as neighbours, there have to be plenty on the list, and whilst you're at it, tighten up the rules for private landlords. There is no point evicting some oik, just to have a private landlord rent them a house round the corner from where they were just evicted!

  We would also want to see the city council use all available powers to make sure that they were not housing scum in amongst us, and to this end we believe that there should be a set of written rules to which the city council has to follow, starting with their right to check with the police for recent criminal activity.
  The way this should go is as follows; if a prospective council tenant has form for violence, drug use or dealing, paedophilia (within the past 5 years), or is an immigrant, then they should be refused the right to a council property, and instead should be made to take private accomodation. Council tenants that house such people should have their tenancies terminated, and not be re-housed by the city council for a fixed period

  All it would take would be a few simple rules like these to cure our council estates of the runaway counts of ant-social behaviour, something that would favour the residents and the city council, and something that would build stronger communities.

Trouble in the rubble.

  I said it yesterday, and I'll say it again today, the more you pay these morons the worse the service you get.
Once again these genius plotters and planners at Stoke-on-Trent city council have outdone themselves in the incompetent/stupidity category, demolishing half the bloody city without having contractors lined up to take the sites on. Now, they find themselves unable to carry on as the  Homes and Communities Agency, Renew, and the other west midland based regen quangos, no longer have the funds available to complete, and it could be years before they do.

A familiar sight all over the city

  Once again Stoke-on-Trent city council have shown their utter inability to manage even the most straightforward of projects, and they leave the city with over 1300 less houses, but with a housing list of 12,000.

  There are huge savings to be made in the city, so the council should now get its bloody finger out and start drawing in these savings. Some of the money to be had could then be used on building projects actually done by the city council through local contractors.
  I've spoken to Phil Dawson from the councils neighbourhood renewal team a couple of times now, and shown him plans from a company called MapleTimberFrames, who design super efficient, pre constructed housing, who handed me plans for a pair of semis, water and wind tight, for £31,500.
This is the way forward, but you try getting it through to these morons at the top of the council food chain.

Fegg Hayes, still not demolished.

  Of course, the real problem with this situation is that hundreds of Stoke-on-Trent residents are now going to have to live next to rubble strewn demolition sites that are going to attract fly tippers, rats, and kids, none of which are welcome neighbours.
   If you own your own property, watch in despair as its value tumbles because that plot next door to you just became a magnet for kids and youths doing who knows what.
And what the hell are the councillors doing in these affected areas of the city? Why would they allow this demolition to go ahead without guarantees of funding, and the name of the construction company contracted to do the building?
I feel particularly sorry for the people of Middleport, who have been afflicted by this council insanity for so long now, and its clear that neither the council, or the councillors involved have no idea how to end this ongoing saga.

  It is apparent that the systems used to run this city have to change, or this city will be no more, and that is something that will only happen by changing councillors at the next election.
The choice is yours, new ideas from people who love this city, or the same old destructive crap you've got now.