THE LIVERPOOL firm that valued former councillor Ian Fowler’s property on Crystal Road at £180,000 as part of a bungled regeneration project has this week won a Compulsory Purchase Order which will see the remaining 25% of the Talbot Gateway/Central Business District land made available for council demolition squads.
AFTER SCRAPPING various ‘pointless’ committees, Simon Blackburn whipped out his famous brass instrument at the last full council meeting and proclaimed that Blackpool would be creating a Fairness Commission. There was much rejoicing, of course. Who doesn’t want the council to be fair?
NO SOONER was it mentioned on here, this lovely document was blasting through mainframes and datacentres only to land in my grateful mailbox. We can now see for ourselves whether Peter Callow has carried out his manifesto promises. Lets get to it, beginning with the introduction. A message from Councillor Peter Callow… I believe that [...more]
IF YOU are as big a fan of Cllr Ian Fowler as I am, you will be aware of the Crystal Road scheme which saw Blackpool Council buying up property in the Foxhall area of town, supposedly to renovate them and release them as high quality family accommodation. Mr Fowler banked a delicious £180,000 from [...more]
In Blackpool there are many derelict and empty sites or buildings where they have great potential for redevelopment but yet they are just left there stagnating. A few examples of this include- South Shore Post Office (Waterloo Rd), Abingdon St PO (open but wasted as a ‘callers office’), Old Yates (Talbot Sq), pretty much the [...more]
The Crystal Road scheme is a pilot (in haste I actually wrote polit there at first – hopefully not a bad omen) project being tried by Blackpool Council in conjunction with the Homes and Communities Agency, intended to set a benchmark upon which their speculative £35m Foxhall blitzkrieg can be based. Crystal Road is home [...more]
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