29/03/2008 - "Me and My Place" 22/03/2008 - The SLOW HOME Movement 21/03/2008 - Old Houses v. New Build 02/12/2008 - LIFE IN MY OBSOLETE TERRACE 12/12/2007 - Communities Against Demolition Report - Publicity 05/12/2007 - Communities Against Demolition - Anne Power, LSE Housing, CASE; Annexes: Adam Wilkinson, SAVE Britain's Heritage; Martin Edwards, Barrister (How to Resist a CPO); and Planning Extracts. 27/08/2007 - Closing the Deal 18/10/2007 - Chavez Ravine Los Angeles USA 01/10/2007 - Goole Action Group legal action against demolition 09/07/2007 - Affordable Housing 27/06/2007 - Communities Under Threat Think Tank 16/06/2007 - BATS? 21/05/2007 - Sustainable Development 14/05/2007 - Kevin Flynn elected Deputy Mayor 04/05/2007 - Election Results 30/04/2007 - End of the Path?? 19/03/2007 - Response to 'Low Demand and HMR Pathfinders' 17/03/2007 - Terraced Houses see the biggest price rises 16/03/2007 - "Once they called it Rachmanism. Now it's being done with taxpayers' money" 06/03/2007 - The Price of Property 28/02/2007 - Understanding Housing Demand in Rising Markets 27/02/2007 - Goole Action Group has reported a fantastic response to their latest exhibition 26/02/2007 - Modern Slavery - in Goole 18/02/2007 - The Big Issue in the North 14/02/2007 - Agency backs fight against compulsory purchase 02/02/2007 - BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours 13/12/2006 - Sign of the Thames ... 01/12/2006 - Victory in Liverpool! 01/11/2006 - GAG want problem streets to be SAFE AS HOUSES 27/09/2006 - Woman wins home demolition fight 09/10/2006 - Battle to save homes in the North 20/09/2006 - Market renewal funding is 'inadequate' 18/09/2006 - 94% Support Renovation! 14/09/2006 - Open Day at Goole Leisure Centre 10/08/2006 - Resident fears she will be forced out of 'unsafe' home 01/08/2006 - Goole Town Council accepted discussions on alternative renovation schemes 16/07/2006 - Project Manager of 'Advance Goole' in refusal to discuss renovation 15/07/2006 - "Prescott's troubled £3bn demolition plans face enquiry" 07/07/2006 - Simon Jenkins on Prescott 26/06/2006 - Renovation ideas to be presented to Goole Town Council 02/06/2006 - Interesting news from Birmingham Pathfinder 23/05/2006 - Blogging David Miliband gets us noticed 22/05/2006 - Neighbourhood Renewal Unit - IPSOS MORI survey 20/05/2006 - "Majority doesn't want old houses to be demolished" 18/05/2006 - Correspondence with ERYC - Answers and Questions 15/05/2006 - How Master Planning is done elsewhere 07/05/2006 - Cartoon Reality - Andrew O'Hagan, writing in SHORT CUTS 06/05/2006 - David Miliband and Jane Jacobs 05/05/2006 - David Miliband's Blog 03/05/2006 - Painting the place ORANGE! 16/03/2007 - "Once they called it Rachmanism. Now it's being done with taxpayers' money"
SIMON JENKINS' retort in The Guardian, to that paper's recent supplement - "Promised Lands".
Guardian
Read "The Great Polemicist" (as the Times flags its former distinguished Editor and columnist).
Then go back to both Joseph Rowntree Foundation documents and form your own conclusions about the price of property, rising markets, affordable housing and brownfield development in what has been described as "The Port in Green Fields".
First Report
Second Report
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