Sunderland Council

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my main gripe with them is they let buildings stand empty and decaying for years,i know they don't own all of them but surely getting onto the owners to do them up or knock them down...food giant,the liverpool house eyesore in high st..they've bulldozed quite a bit of villiers st last month and fenced it off and put soil on,it looks better than what was there before
 
Maybe so Bob but their respective councils are to blame also, and that's why we need a change in Sunderland, I don't care about other towns up and down the country, we have a big catchment area with a big enough population to make Sunderland city as good as Durham or Newcastle and compete with them, what we need is a council run by a party with the pride and ambition of Sunderland at heart because this Labour run council clearly has not.

I don't think we can compete.

Durham is what is through being a university town and tourism. Newcastle has employment that we can simply never match. We shouldn't be looking at our neighbours with jealousy and wanting to match them. We just need to concentrate on getting more employment into the city centre and then try to complement that with something different.
 
Our coastline and riverside is something neither Newcastle or Durham can match - it should be the making of Sunderland. We need to stop comparing ourselves to both places.
 
Have you checked the date on your calender lately, or even in the last 2 decades?

Of course i have. Do you think the economic and social consequences of what happened to the area in the 1970´s, 1980´s is going to over and done with in a couple of years ? If you do you are being naive. These consequences will be felt in the region for a long time yet as the north east economy surprisingly seems to have not been a priority for westminster politicians.
 
Our coastline and riverside is something neither Newcastle or Durham can match - it should be the making of Sunderland. We need to stop comparing ourselves to both places.
credit where its due they've done a cracking job down hendon beach,carparks, painted,walkways, new railings they've even removed the ww2 pillar box..
 
No they won't - there are more people employed in Sunderland now than there were in the 1970's. The deputy chief executive of sunderland council was quoted as saying so last month in th eEcho.


Of course i have. Do you think the economic and social consequences of what happened to the area in the 1970´s, 1980´s is going to over and done with in a couple of years ? If you do you are being naive. These consequences will be felt in the region for a long time yet as the north east economy surprisingly seems to have not been a priority for westminster politicians.
 
my main gripe with them is they let buildings stand empty and decaying for years,i know they don't own all of them but surely getting onto the owners to do them up or knock them down...food giant,the liverpool house eyesore in high st..they've bulldozed quite a bit of villiers st last month and fenced it off and put soil on,it looks better than what was there before

Aye, the tax offices that were built two of them, I often wondered why they didn't just buy that old building over the road that's used as some kind of art centre at the bottom of low row, it's a nice old building and that sort of place needs saving, it could quite easily have been made part of the tax offices and done up instead of looking like the eyesore it is now.

No they won't - there are more people employed in Sunderland now than there were in the 1970's. The deputy chief executive of sunderland council was quoted as saying so last month in th eEcho.

It doesn't matter how much you try, you'll never get rid of the Thatcher / Conservative hatred that obscures their vision.
 
beach wise..next to the little cafe at the blockyard theres a modern building been empty for ages..round the corner from cat and dogs steps theres 'kittys cafe' been used as a store for the cleaning dept,its a lovely building right on the prom. but no we'll store shite in it rather than rent it out ffs..
 
I don't think we can compete.

Durham is what is through being a university town and tourism. Newcastle has employment that we can simply never match. We shouldn't be looking at our neighbours with jealousy and wanting to match them. We just need to concentrate on getting more employment into the city centre and then try to complement that with something different.

I'm sorry Bob but that is not an excuse, we can compete, it's the lack of a council that want's to compete is the problem.
 
Of course i have. Do you think the economic and social consequences of what happened to the area in the 1970´s, 1980´s is going to over and done with in a couple of years ? If you do you are being naive. These consequences will be felt in the region for a long time yet as the north east economy surprisingly seems to have not been a priority for westminster politicians.

Have Newcastle and Durham suddenly moved to the Midlands?
 
Well you can understand their bitterness but after all it was nearly 30 years ago - time to move on. The simple fact is that around 7,000 jobs were lost in the shipbuilding industry and about 12,000 created by Nissan and it's supply industries. The jobs lost in the mining industry on Wearside are dwarfed by the expansion of the University of Sunderland. Then you have the likes of Doxford International, Sunderland Enterprise Park etc.

This makes the current state of Sunderland as a commercial centre even more annoying.


Aye, the tax offices that were built two of them, I often wondered why they didn't just buy that old building over the road that's used as some kind of art centre at the bottom of low row, it's a nice old building and that sort of place needs saving, it could quite easily have been made part of the tax offices and done up instead of looking like the eyesore it is now.



It doesn't matter how much you try, you'll never get rid of the Thatcher / Conservative hatred that obscures their vision.
 
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Have Newcastle and Durham suddenly moved to the Midlands?

It seems they've been indoctrinated with so much apathy they've given up all hope and fight for this city :oops: good job some of us haven't mate ;)
 
No they won't - there are more people employed in Sunderland now than there were in the 1970's. The deputy chief executive of sunderland council was quoted as saying so last month in th eEcho.

Possibly that is true but as a percentage of the working population i very much doubt it. Only a fool would think there is less unemployment in the area than there was two generations ago.
 
It seems they've been indoctrinated with so much apathy they've given up all hope and fight for this city :oops: good job some of us haven't mate ;)

I just find it laughable anyone tries to use the North East economy as a reason why Sunderland is held back, look at Gateshead FFS, i remember the place well in the 1980's and Beirut would write letters of complaint if you tried to compare them.
 
Well you can understand their bitterness but after all it was nearly 30 years ago - time to move on. The simple fact is that around 7,000 jobs were lost in the shipbuilding industry and about 12,000 created by Nissan and it's supply industries. The jobs lost in the mining industry on Wearside are dwarfed by the expansion of the University of Sunderland. Then you have the likes of Doxford International, Sunderland Enterprise Park etc.

This makes the current state of Sunderland as a commercial centre even more annoying.

I've posted exactly the same thing may times, some of the people up here would rather cut their nose off to spite their face rather than vote a party in that might actually help the City.
 
I don't think we can compete.

Durham is what is through being a university town and tourism. Newcastle has employment that we can simply never match. We shouldn't be looking at our neighbours with jealousy and wanting to match them. We just need to concentrate on getting more employment into the city centre and then try to complement that with something different.

Exactly.
http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/local/hard_work_starts_on_software_city_1_3107988
http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/supplem...onsulting-comes-to-sunderland-51140-28307464/

This is the type of stuff we need. If we had the workers in the city centre with disposable income then more bars, restaurants, shops etc can thrive. Investing in shops alone will not bring in shoppers.
 
Thats because Onenortheast spent billions on NewcastleGateshead while we got nothing. And some on here criticise the government for getting rid of it.



I just find it laughable anyone tries to use the North East economy as a reason why Sunderland is held back, look at Gateshead FFS, i remember the place well in the 1980's and Beirut would write letters of complaint if you tried to compare them.
 
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Aye, you're right. I'd be more worried about my kids and grandchildrens futures than the legacy of previous governments. Look at McGuiness and the Rev Ian Paisley in Northern Ireland - if they can put their differences behind them in order to make a brighter future I think we can.

I've posted exactly the same thing may times, some of the people up here would rather cut their nose off to spite their face rather than vote a party in that might actually help the City.

I really don't see where you're coming from on this.


Hatred aside, (they did destroy the communities i grew up in) i form my opinions from what i see, the people around me, family, friends. The reality for them is very much real and lived on a daily basis.
 
Thats because Onenortheast spent billions on NewcastleGateshead while we got nothing. And some on here criticise the government for getting of it.

Thus creating the jewel in the crown, all things Tynesnie if you see what I mean, it definitely seem like it's all geared to make that area the bee's knees, while this place rots, that's why I have my conspiracy theory, because they spend it all on Tynesnide and none of it here, we paid for the Metro and didn't even get a station here until 10 years later, and only because we made a stink over it.
 
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