Conservative leader David Cameron is due to visit Telford tomorrow to meet borough council chiefs and see an estate earmarked for a major regeneration project.
The visit is understood to be part of a nationwide tour of nine marginal seats by the Tory supremo.
Mr Cameron is scheduled to meet Councillor Andrew Eade, Telford & Wrekin Council leader, and other civic chiefs at the authority’s headquarters in the morning, before heading over with them to Sutton Hill.
He is due to go to Sutton Hill Community Centre, from where he will be shown work being done to transform the lives of people in the area. Residents of the estate have been making calls for the area to be revitalised, claiming the estate has been ignored for years.
Borough council bosses have made the area one of the first to be targeted under its £23 million Borough Towns Initiative to improve parts of Telford & Wrekin.
Empty and neglected homes are to be knocked down or revamped.
Earlier this year, footage was posted on video-sharing website YouTube highlighting problems in Sutton Hill, with residents calling for full regeneration of the area.
Councillor Eade has said improving housing in Sutton Hill is part of the council’s commitment to regeneration.
More than 4,000 questionnaires went out to residents in Sutton Hill and Brookside asking for their opinions on plans for regeneration in April but only about a quarter responded.
About 90 people had attended a public meeting in March when they told how their lives were being made a misery with burned-out homes, fly-tipping and a lack of investment in Sutton Hill.
They spoke about how they felt their calls for action had been ignored.
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i hope he visits owen pattison and tells him to adopt the party line on wind power
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the whole regeneration thing is silly , you cant build whole estates based on a councill estate plans, they do not work or blend, a person who rents from an association or privatly or infact own and are law abiding ciizens in my view are of equel standing in the community.
giving a section the impression they are a little above an association tennant is why there is so much trouble and not in my back yard issues and the end of the day most are just carrying more debts as the credit crunch is proving.
if new homes are to be built they have to be of good quality average sized gardens parking etc etc many for out right purchase some shared owner ship some rental only and some for oap but all mixed together, they cant be crammed in like rabbits.
Trouble making tennants evicted quickly , and people who own there homes also need to be dealt with excluding eviction if they are a pain to nieghbors fast tracked to court .
All cameron will see is people who will not vote for him a new generation plann which im sure is just replacing old with new and nothing any different and a nice buffett supplied and paid for by ?????
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look at them trying to cash in on regeneration that the labour government is funding because they squeeked onto the local council, the tories dont have a clue about regeration, or anything in urban areas, its there policies which caused all the problems in the first place
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LOL – a tory visiting a council estate – that’s funny, bet its a first for him
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Why’s he coming here? To tell us that we should all abandon the Midlands and move down to the South East?
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He is visiting Sutton Hill!!!
that should be a laugh especially if some of the youngsters in Sutton Hill show up.
Funnythat Councillor Eade is going to be showing him around
you would neer imagine they both belong to the same party
or am I being cynical
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Perhaps him and Owen Patterson can go to the Red Admiral for a pint_not. Let them both live up Sutton Hill for a year on local ‘wages’ (now there’s a reality TV idea?), c’mon Cambo you’r cool do it!
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Bet he’ll try and HUG A HOODIE, he’d probably get stabbed if he tried it there, and that would such a sad end to his sizzlingly slick sales career
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how pathetic going to TELFORD! its not exacuatly the roughest place is it! take him to glasgow!
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They forget to say that a certain resident from a certain local web site actually got this moving in the first place.Now eade is gaining politically on this but refuses to acknowledge why its being done. Even the Shopshire Star failed to cover the initial pieces even when it was on the tv, radio etc, give credit were credit should go councillor eade.
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Hope he locks his bicycle up when he’s in Sutton Hill!
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what would david cameroon know about life on a council estate, i think he should go back down south and woo rich city slickers with promises of vat free luxury yachts and leave the real problems of life to real politians from labour and liberal who actually care about people from estates in telford
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i assume he is bringing some tory policies with him as they are pretty thin on the ground so far. he might like to listen to any qustions tonight on radio 4, he might inherit a few!!
presumably shropshire has no life expired towns where the residents are encouraged to move to surrey or somewhere south.
you can always tell when the silly season is upon us, when a tory think tank reports, eh mr peasebody, are you still there?
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I personally find the blogs that have their origins in Telford most depressing. I can remember Telford in the early 60s – before the New Town was built and the imports from other areas gained root. Then, it was an area made up of proud people with small, separate local communities though they identified with the larger area without envy, jealousy or feelings of “class chips on the shoulder”. By and large, many people identified with Labour but by no means were they driven to the outpourings of bile, ignorance and class hatreds that all to often seem to come from Telford in these columns, these days. It is one thing to have party loyalties and affiliations, it is quite another to criticise parties for one’s own failings, inadequacies, poor knowledge or ignorance of the situation as it exists or existed. For example, Devils Chair talks about “local wages” as if it is the Tories fault, Labour have been in power 11 years Devil, if you don’t like your wages, do something about it. The choices are all yours. As for John Simpson, well, that is the height of the debate, see what I mean by ignorance. That just about sums up many of the people who blog here about politics in Telford. Most intelligent. Then we have Devon Salopian who professes to be an ex Young Tory Chairperson. Every word he utters is a criticism of the Tory party which invariably is based on fantasy or “plucks from the air”. Who is he trying to kid except himself – Tory Chairperson my foot. When he talks about Tory policies he has to mouth the catch phrases of the Labour Party faithful in Westminster because he has no “original” criticisms of his own – perhaps he should ask where the Labour policies come from, well Devon Salopian, like the “steal” of Inheritance Tax, they are generally pinched from the Tories.
Cameron must be mad to even consider fighting Telford, if I was him, I wouldn’t even look at the place let alone visit or fight it in the election. I would let it stew in the juice that the likes of those that blog here, have made for it. 4000 were circulated with a questionaire on regeneration, one quarter responded and 90 attended a meeting. Those figures say it all. Those that live in Telford and failed to respond and then “bleat”, deserve what they get. I would venture to suggest that Telford would get more from the Tories than what they have had from New Labour over the past eleven years but if these blogs are an example, they are to set in their outmoded, old fashioned and class ridden ways to realise it.
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