The Retain and Monitor Area Includes the Following Streets

Greater Eston Consultation - South Bank Retain and Monitor Area

Background

As part of the Greater Eston Masterplan consultation exercise, residents who visited the static exhibition between 7 and 15 November 2008, at Golden Boy Green in South Bank, were asked to provide views on the Retain and Monitor area by completing a short questionnaire and amending a plan of the area. (Appendix 1).

The Retain and Monitor area includes the following streets:

 South Terrace  Oliver Street  Cromwell Road  Pym Street  Edward Street  King Street  Victoria Street  Hampden Street (north side only)  Ann St (parts of)  Harcourt Road (part of)

48 Questionnaires/Plans were completed.

29 of the 48 were completed by residents who indicated that they reside in the Retain and Monitor area.

Analysis of Responses: Table 1 illustrates responses to questions about the demolition and refurbishment of properties within the Retain and Monitor area.

Table 1 Question Yes Yes No No No No (Total) (No. who (Total) (No. who Response Response reside in reside in (Total) (No. who area) area reside in area) Do you think we need to carry out more demolition 28 18 15 9 5 2 in this area? Do you think we should refurbish selected older 31 19 8 6 7 3 properties in this area?

Of those respondents who indicated that more demolition should take place, only four were in favour of wide scale demolition of the Retain and Monitor area.

The streets have been split into blocks and numbered (Appendix 2). This plan has been used to plot the following categories on a spreadsheet (Appendix 3):

Blocks strongly favoured for demolition – with a score of 10+ - blue. Blocks strongly favoured for refurbishment – with a score of 10+ - green. Blocks where respondents were more in favour of demolition than refurbishment – pink. Blocks where respondents were more in favour of refurbishment than demolition – orange. Blocks where the responses were even – white.

The blocks strongly favoured for demolition were:

Block 1 South Terrace Numbers 91 to 103 Block 17 Oliver Street Numbers 3 to 51 Block 19 Oliver Street Numbers 4 to 48 Block 21 Cromwell Road Numbers 5 to 45 Block 22 Victoria Street Numbers 15 to 27 Block 24 King Street Numbers 37 to 47 Block 26 Pym Street Numbers 7 to 49 Block 27 Pym Street Numbers 2 to 36

The blocks strongly favoured for refurbishment were:

Block 28 Edward Street Numbers 1 to 29 Block 29 Edward Street Numbers 2 to 20

What are the priorities for this area: respondents were asked to give a score of between 1 and 10 to the following priorities, with 10 being the highest priority. They were also given the opportunity to raise other priorities. Table 2 illustrates the responses, ranked in order of importance.

Table 2 Priority Score – Score – people Total Score people not residing in residing in area area Community Safety 193 155 348 Street Cleaning 200 146 346 Refuse Collection 186 146 332 Green Space 117 121 238 Traffic Flow 113 108 221

Further comments:

“Living in 19th century conditions when it is now the 21st century”.

“Refuse collection should be once a week (x 3)”.

“Streets – never cleaned properly, should be checked”.

“Good play park”.

“Police”.

“Demolition of Oliver Street (resident of Oliver St)”.

“More clean play areas (x 2)”.

“Make sure that potential tenants into the area are vetted before housing them”.

“Getting people to take pride in their area”.

“Anti-Social Behaviour”.

“New house build to blend in with retained houses”.

“Consolidate housing area. Viable local shopping catchment. Back alleys sweep clean and enforcement. Police response is good – root out destructives by evictions. Remove humps – blanket 20mph limit). Enforce by wardens. Retain green spaces as community gardens, London squares. Transport to work and play – enforce contracts – support Leven Valley buses”.

“Victoria Court – community gardens or allotments or a playing field”.

“Victoria Court – extend play area for all age groups”.

“Former Cromwell Road School site – make a bicycle park”.

“Former Cromwell Road School site – open space up for BMX”.

“Post Office – relocate to 6 South Terrace or use as site for a new shop”.

“More attention from wardens”.

“Street Cleaning – People who live there need educating” (Resident of Oliver St).

“Green Space – Pointless due to lack of maintenance in existing areas”. (Resident of Oliver St).

“Street cleaning takes place, but need better enforcement against litter and dumping”.

“Refuse collection – Enforcement to ensure property occupiers put bins out to prevent dumping”.

“Community Safety – A sense of security may inspire demand for property”.

“Traffic Flow – remove barriers to allow better police patrols and traffic flow”.

“Green Space – both public and gardens for each house”.