Richard Cooper Street and Phoenix Street, Goole, 6 July 2007

Boarded up houses in Richard Cooper Street and Phoenix Street, Goole, Yorkshire on Friday morning, 6th July 2007. Ignoring local objections, a shortage of affordable housing, and proposals for renovation, these 117 viable houses are being bought up by the East Yorkshire local authority, boarded up, and left to rot. It seems likely the houses will eventually be replaced by fewer, more expensive new houses, but proposals are vague because no compulsory purchase order has been issued. Instead the remaining residents endure dreadful conditions as their numbers dwindle through attrition. This is the "Pathfinder Scheme" in action (see http://www.goole-action-group.org.uk/). This video has also been loaded on to the facebook web site by "Goole Book".

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[claire1667]

are they still there or are they gone?

[GooleTube]

@claire1667 They have now been demolished and the area is currently a flat empty space.

[GooleTube]

@claire1667 The government's Pathfinder initiative under which ouncils are funded to replace old houses with new ones, so East Riding council decided these streets should be replaced, despite many residents being opposed to it, and despite that it would be less costly to bring the older houses up to modern standards. This has happened all over the North of England, and many regard it as a scandal. See the Goole Action Group website for more detail.

[Sungate96]

Was down these two streets very recently. Only about a couple of houses occupied. What's the point in staying there? Hurry up and bring on the bulldozers!

[GooleTube]

But EY council appear to have no plans at all for the area. It would just leave derelict ground. Yet there is a shortage of affordable homes. These houses, renovated, would make attractive first homes. This could be done more quickly and at less cost than building new ones. And if new ones were built there would be fewer of them, and they would be more expensive. There are also questions about the ground conditions for building new ones as Goole was built on marshland. It's a no brainer really.

[stevie431]

what a criminal waste. disgraceful.

[cb1300f3]

My friend lived in the first house you see in the video that's occupied,

He fought for the houses but in the end the Council won,

Now the houses are gone and on the 22/9/2011 my friend died.

You will never be forgotten Chief Petty Officer John Russell Eyre, love your friend Ian.

[YouGotToLOL]

They've all been knocked down now those houses x

[claire1667]

@GooleTube why were they all boarded up and vacant?

[jeanpaulsinatra]

Why oh why oh why did Goole vote Tory. I bet it was those bloody Lincs inbreds down the river

[macnerd93]

@mrploat you should check out my channel and see the state they are in now, honestly they are horrendous now