Seaside resorts and health inequalities

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bfcpete

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Interesting report out today from the Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty regarding the health inequalities and problems of seaside resorts such as Blackpool and Skegness. Blackpool as the most deprived in the country, high hospital admission rates, high drugs and alcohol problems, low life expectancies. Decades of underinvestment and the local Director of Public Health has highligted poor quality private sector housing and the dumping by the big Cities of problem families and cases into the town.
Highlights on the BBC website, but the full report is also available. Will they start to address the issues - improvements in health, housing, jobs and stop the dumping issue? All the political parties have treated these resorts very poorly for the the last 40 years.
 
It's there to see, particularly as an exile, there are areas of the town that just shouldn't be like that in 2021. Why have Blackpool Council let this happen? If ever a town in the UK needed a massive sort out it's Blackpool.

My intention is to move back once I have retired, maybe sooner. I was bought up in St Annes and bought my first house in Blackpool and for me it was and always will be home. Would I move back to Blackpool? Possibly, more likely St Annes though. None of this would put me off but it is something the local council and MP's over the years should be absolutely ashamed of. Blackpool is a great place but it needs to be bought back to the 21st Century and not left to dwindle further.
 
The trouble with successive councils is that they've always had grandiose headline grabbing vanity projects, like super casinos, and completely ignored the day to day, little by little approach, why have HMOs not been banned for example?
 
Echo the sentiments of Herts. 79 onwards Pool became a benefit dumping ground. Attracted some undesirable types.
Personally love the town but would never move back.
 
Tangerinenick said:
Echo the sentiments of Herts. 79 onwards Pool became a benefit dumping ground. Attracted some undesirable types.
Personally love the town but would never move back.
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A series of policies, such as (Little or no) care in the Community, whereby the big cities could move people out of their areas to the seaside towns where there were masses of cheap rooms allowing unscrupulous landlords to fleece the local councils and Government agencies , while stripping those local councils of funding to be able to cope.

That's free market capitalism in action right there. Best PM ever my arse.
 
Tangerinenick said:
Echo the sentiments of Herts. 79 onwards Pool became a benefit dumping ground. Attracted some undesirable types.
Personally love the town but would never move back.
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The town is crying out for more hotels, more car parks a multi million pound tram track to link North Station to Talbot Square. A theme park type ride that will be outdated by the time it's built where the old police station used to be.
Along with getting rid of half the municipal golf course. Perhaps the greatest idea is to close down the airport for any meaningful aviation and building a Caffè with a business park. Then let's not forget the Jewel in the Crown super casino. That should not only benifit the locals but being in millions more visitors.
 
bfcpete said:
Interesting report out today from the Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty regarding the health inequalities and problems of seaside resorts such as Blackpool and Skegness. Blackpool as the most deprived in the country, high hospital admission rates, high drugs and alcohol problems, low life expectancies. Decades of underinvestment and the local Director of Public Health has highligted poor quality private sector housing and the dumping by the big Cities of problem families and cases into the town.
Highlights on the BBC website, but the full report is also available. Will they start to address the issues - improvements in health, housing, jobs and stop the dumping issue? All the political parties have treated these resorts very poorly for the the last 40 years.
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Will they address the issue , No, will anyone address the issue, No.
 
Seasider1 said:
The town is crying out for more hotels, more car parks a multi million pound tram track to link North Station to Talbot Square. A theme park type ride that will be outdated by the time it's built where the old police station used to be.
Along with getting rid of half the municipal golf course. Perhaps the greatest idea is to close down the airport for any meaningful aviation and building a Caffè with a business park. Then let's not forget the Jewel in the Crown super casino. That should not only benifit the locals but being in millions more visitors.
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Great news!

www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk

Councillor welcomes new Blackpool car park on former casino site

Work to build a car park on the site of a former casino in Blackpool which was destroyed in a blaze 12 years ago has been welcomed.
www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk
 
My sister took over as the headteacher of a poorly performing primary school in Blackpool in the early 2000s. She only did so on condition that the Council re-zoned a decent proportion of local housing to owner occupation from poorer quality housing association, Council housing and other rented accommodation. The school partly performed badly because 80% of the pupils were transitory in nature, no doubt also because of some of those placed into Blackpool by other parts of the country. Over a period of time the area became more diversified with families there for the longer term and investing time in the school and the local community. School performance improved greatly. So good leadership and a different way of thinking can work. Unfortunately, over the last 50 years Blackpool Council has shown little vision and good leadership.
 
It is in my opinion that Blackpool Borough Clowncil has only ever done things which benefits themselves, not things that benefit the local community
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
Great news!

www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk

Councillor welcomes new Blackpool car park on former casino site

Work to build a car park on the site of a former casino in Blackpool which was destroyed in a blaze 12 years ago has been welcomed.
www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk
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FFS, not a major issue there as the site is small but....

Weve got enough car parks, huge ones that I can't imagine are always full. Must be thousands of spaces, plus the front you can pay for parking and tons of other roads.

Madness.
 
The report is about seaside towns in general and not specifically Blackpool, implying that successive governments are at fault and the problem has been ignored for a very long time. Blackpool is at the top of the list probably because it has been the most popular for seasonal work. The trouble is many workers stay on in the resorts when the work has ended and the resorts have to soak up the problem. Also as stated in the report large cities dump their problem families in them. There is no extra government funding made available thus the solution is to either increase council tax to an extortionate level or cut services when in fact they need more and better services to even attempt to solve the problem
 
hertfordseasider said:
It's there to see, particularly as an exile, there are areas of the town that just shouldn't be like that in 2021. Why have Blackpool Council let this happen? If ever a town in the UK needed a massive sort out it's Blackpool.

My intention is to move back once I have retired, maybe sooner. I was bought up in St Annes and bought my first house in Blackpool and for me it was and always will be home. Would I move back to Blackpool? Possibly, more likely St Annes though. None of this would put me off but it is something the local council and MP's over the years should be absolutely ashamed of. Blackpool is a great place but it needs to be bought back to the 21st Century and not left to dwindle further.
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You'll be right in St Annes herts. Only one in three shops closed down there.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
The trouble with successive councils is that they've always had grandiose headline grabbing vanity projects, like super casinos, and completely ignored the day to day, little by little approach, why have HMOs not been banned for example?
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more homeless as a result.
 
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