What's wrong with immigrants? They are trying to live like us

Exactly. They can't maintain what we already have.

It is starting its slow journey of living.

Great story

The city is on the up spending all that money on rubbish like a metal tree on forest Park , millions on a Museum . I'm disabled in a council house and been asking for new windows that will stop the wind from moving my blinds and keep the cold out . All I get is there no money to replace them . Stoke on trent council is a joke .

Refurbish it? It was already there?

yes the council have made some mistakes over the years, but to address the housing issue, there are plenty of affordable housing projects going on. i can think of the old victoria ground, middleport and the old royal doulton grounds for starters. These houses are knocked up on the cheap - we really cant complain that this is not happening in the city. if you are not happy with the cheap housing once in them its really just down to trying to improve yourself so that you can move on to the more expensive houses on the outskirts, but those houses are there. to address old buildings need to be knocked down, yes agreed. the council has pulled down old terrace housing and 'eventually' replaced 'most' areas with new houses. other than that, old buildings other than housing, there is no point pulling a building down if nothing can be put in its place as its more cost to the public for no return. investors may not be drawn to the area for many reasons, maybe this is something the council should be getting their finger out more with however, but these things take more time in stoke as it is not london or manchester perhaps. To address the litter, well to address it costs money (again), if you are happy with more council rate hikes perhaps? To address the nice wine bars and cafes, what business of that type is going to risk that sort of venture in stoke on trent? 15 years ago it was said that night life footfall had fallen by two thirds from its peak, this is huge numbers. To make matters worse, Hanley is now completly empty at night, so the trend has only become worse. Times are changing, people just do not have the money to waste (as they once did) on going out. If wine bars and cafes made sufficient money in the inner regions of the city they would be there but they are not. I really dont understand this continual moaning of stoke on trent, yes it really needs improving but this takes time, money and a re-adjustment to the current trends. you do realise this is going on all over the world dont you?

@@marky78mark Yes I do know that it's going on all over the world, maybe at myself being 63 years of age you didn't think I knew that. I agree improvements take time but how long do the Coucil want. As far as the point in pulling buildings down if there is nothing to put up in its place, then why pull down perfectly good terrace houses in Bucknall Road, I think most of the public thought the site would be built on pronto, but no it took years before those houses were built. The litter I know again is not the fault of the Council but the public, have you seen the videos by St audits. Houses are being built but they are not necessarily affordable and not especially all well built which as we've heard in places are already causing problems. its Social houses that needs building, or perfectly good buildings that are derelict at the moment being utilized for those people that still cannot afford these houses that are being built. But no the Coouncil would rather spend money building carparks that we don't need, they would rather talk about building a new shopping area instead of utilising and improving what Stoke on Trent has already got. You mention that people don't have the money to waste like they once did, myself and my husband have never wasted or waste money when we've gone out we save it to go out for pleasure and the social aspect which there is very little of now. Yes we also know trends are changing, people probably prefer fast food now rather than a nice restaurant or don't want theatre's or wine bars but that doesn't mean the city has to look a mess. I'm sorry that you are fed up with the public moaning about Stoke-on-Trent all the time but the general public are just either fed up of either nothing being done for goodness knows how long or fed up of seeing money being wasted. People may not be able to go out and spend the money but they would feel less fed up whatever their circumstances if the surroundings in Stoke-on-Trent were more appealing instead of feeling like we are heading on a very downward slope, someone said to me the other day that they were dreading to think what it's going to be like in ten years time and they weren't 63 years of age but younger.

We’re better off now than having win bars or whatever they are!

@@KILLER.KNIGHT if you are okay living in Stoke-on-Trent and happy for it to be going downhill then I'm happy for you. Its Wine bar, look it up

@@juliemycock648 We need other things not bars or pubs! They ruin society! ☠️☠️☠️☠️

Etruria already is apart of the City Centre and they refused the two or three bids for its former station to be brought back into use!

The train station is no further away from the city centre than any other city.