BLACKPOOL: “We could be homeless before Christmas”

Blackpool is undergoing a £300m regeneration programme. Something we’ll see is definitely needed along Central Drive.
Just down the road is Henry Street, where residents are being forced out of their homes, to make way for Blackpool FC’s new stand.
All this and more is covered on this video
#blackpool #turkishbarber #uk
‪@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool‬

[@jamiesrockandsoul]

Im a vlogger in Blackpool, and the sprouts of recovery are there, I live in the Central Area where as you can see the council concentrate all the money near the station, the 300 million project near the new car park has run out of money so im assuming giant car parks in that area! Nice one, I like the balanced narrative you give on these sensitive subjects :)

[@AdikiaMedia]

Thank you my mate. Maybe you can show me around next time 👍

[@AdikiaMedia]

Did you like Bully Moores video on Blackpool Jamie?

[@tracyrobo7606]

How sad is it...Blackpool used to be thriving...it seems like that community feeling is lost...like you said John...if the tourists dont see it...the council doesn't care about it...all them turkish barbers without a customer.. somethings getting washed and its not hair..🫤..great vid John...as always.

[@AdikiaMedia]

@@tracyrobo7606 absolutely right Tracy, I just personally think there’s a lot of money being spent on the wrong things. Community is lost because they’re forgotten about by their own council. Great comment Tracy thank you 🙏

[@frederickmuhlbauer9477]

Why do the authorities tolerate that Tracy Crazy

[@sassy_brit1975]

New sub here ❤ i was made homeless in nov 2023 (still am) and have tried everywhere to get help & have been turned away & refused help by my local council etc.. I have never been homeless before & it is soul destroying & my mental health has hit rock bottom, i am feel suicidal all the time ..Wanted to say Thank you for highlighting the homeless issue and keep up the great work ❤ xxx

[@AdikiaMedia]

@@sassy_brit1975 so sorry to hear this, you’re from Sussex aren’t you? I don’t know what it’s like around there for help with homelessness, but I do know there’s a free mental health service that you text and can talk to a trained volunteer who I believe are fantastic. If you text SUSSEX to 85258, they’ll call you back for a conversation. It’s worth a go and something I hope you prioritise. Take care and let me know how you go 🙏

[@Lisa-Peter7875]

Really hope you get help soon. Keep pushing 🙏

[@sassy_brit1975]

@Lisa-Peter7875 thank you 💛

[@Lisa-Peter7875]

@@sassy_brit1975 💞

[@Ladychezz75]

@sassy_brit1975 sending love & hugs hun ❤️ xxx

[@kelse5733]

I used to go to blackpool every year as a child, I have since been back whilst an adult, and it is astounding how run down it is, I wish that the council could do more for this place. Utterly heartbreaking to see those struggling. How can we be in 2025 and still have homelessness?

[@Paul-010]

So glad I came across your channel, I enjoyed the filming and commentary so much that I subbed!👍🏻

[@AdikiaMedia]

@@Paul-010 thank you Paul, glad you enjoyed and subbed 👍

[@Ladychezz75]

@@Paul-010 @AdikiaMedia is Brill mate 👍

[@AdikiaMedia]

The community on here makes it brill 🫶

[@carolinecawley2921]

Why is this being allowed to happen for a poxy football ground it’s sickening

[@AdikiaMedia]

@@carolinecawley2921 I agree, it’s so wrong

[@carolinecawley2921]

@ love your channel keep up the good work🌹🌹🌹

[@AdikiaMedia]

@ thanks very much Caroline

[@anthonycrompton6922]

Compulsory purchase for a private firm to build? Is that lawful, I thought only the government could do that for motorways and defence

[@michaelobrien9825]

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY ATTROCIOUS WITH WHAT THEY ARE GETTING AWAY WITH.

[@eibhlinnichrualoai]

Love your channel. God bless you love 🙏🇮🇪💚

[@AdikiaMedia]

@@eibhlinnichrualoai thank you so much Eibhlin 🙏 take care 💚

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Good video pal & thanks forgot the shout. IMO 90k sounds fairly reasonable for those houses on Henry St, but the wooden house maybe sat on more land, which is possibly why it cost more. There used to be three of those wooden houses. Not sure what will become of Central Drive now that the 300M development has fallen through.

[@AdikiaMedia]

@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool just watching your latest video and then you send me this 👍 Central Drive could be thriving again if it had money pumped in to it, but as you say it’s fell through and it’s frustrating for the people around there. Thank you for the comment legend 👍

[@chrisg2533]

The houses being CPO’d are to make way for a reduced capacity stand for Blackpool FC which is a community asset and also the community sports village development , which will be another community asset . Having looked on right move the money offered in the CPO’s would appear to be in the right ball park . The decline of the Central Drive area started with the closure of Blackpool Central Railway Station in 1964. Blackpool Central was at one point the busiest station in the UK ( some say the world ) and had 14 platforms .

[@Lisa-Peter7875]

I'm glad sarah is doing well. Unfortunately, a lot of people were advised to plead gulity when they shouldn't have. Sad times. 12:10

[@Ironman-t2h]

Sad how this once booming sea towns are ghost towns now adikia lad good on you for highlighting the problem adikia lad

[@AdikiaMedia]

@@Ironman-t2h it is mate, Blackpool is very seasonal but other seaside towns like Southport or Rhyl are ghost towns most of the year. Take care Ironman 👍

[@frederickmuhlbauer9477]

WOW I had no idea how depressed that area had gotten Sad

[@Frank75288]

You were on a promise with that last fella

[@AdikiaMedia]

😂

[@Ladychezz75]

@@Frank75288 🙈🤣🤣🤣

[@ScouseFarm]

Such a shame because Blackpool is lovely, and so much of the 'guts' of it is being ripped out. If people are forced to move, they should be paid a PREMIUM for their property and set up in a new property before any demolition takes place. Where can you buy another house for £90k and cover all the legal and moving costs close to where they are? NOWHERE. Theft of property by the state, happening all over. Nice one mate, great vid 👍

[@AdikiaMedia]

@@ScouseFarm brilliant point that mate. Profits over people all the time isn’t it. Such a shame. Thanks for your comment mate 👍

[@Ladychezz75]

@ScouseFarm I've just been staying there between Liverpool & Blackpool for over a year & honest to God I've never seen a place anywhere else before in my life where there is so many empty properties! 😲 & yet there are so many homeless in the street's there!? They could be doing something about all these empty properties just sitting there for the homeless!? 💔😭

[@ScouseFarm]

@@Ladychezz75 Madness isn't it. Same in some parts of Liverpool where I walked down an empty street that's been left to rot for many years. Such a shame.

[@philipjones9458]

Lovely?

[@Lisa-Peter7875]

This is disgusting! I hope the remaining homeowners hold out!! It is an insult. 2:56

[@AlexanderMclntosh]

I come from Glasgow but lived here for 34 years and seen it decline for a long time now

[@LerHughes-m1c]

Sound vid mate 👍

[@AdikiaMedia]

@@LerHughes-m1c appreciate it as always mate 👍

[@Lisa-Peter7875]

What i have noticed is well to do areas still have good shops ie, delicatessen, restaurants, florists, butchers cheese shops a lot of english shops ect, run down areas have Turkish barber (not turkish either) nail bars pizza places vape shops tat shops ( buckets ect) on pavements. Wonder why this is 🤔

[@AdikiaMedia]

@@Lisa-Peter7875 you’re absolutely spot on. There’s definitely more to these type of shops (barbers, nail bars etc) cover ups for something else. It’s just proving it, that’s the difficult part. Thanks for your comment 👍

[@Lisa-Peter7875]

@@AdikiaMedia Also been told this by a British Greek barber he has had is shop for years and years and these barbers have opened right by his shop and they are always empty. Al ban ians are part of this too. Thanks for your content tent your always spot on. 👍

[@AdikiaMedia]

@ yeah I’ve spoke to a few barbers about this and they’re saying the same thing. Thanks very much 👍

[@AlexanderMclntosh]

Only the seafront is what putting money into

[@Lisa-Peter7875]

All them shops are fronts... always empty 4:55

[@AdikiaMedia]

I agree, 100%

[@PhillipRothery]

Why are councils allowing so many of these barbers and vape shops to open when everyone knows they bring nothing in helping footfall and regeneration-madness

[@AdikiaMedia]

@@PhillipRothery and what are they really fronting?

[@PhillipRothery]

@ Everyone knows!!!!

[@Ladychezz75]

Did yea see John or Sketch mate? We're back home now on the wirral, but had to pop back to blackpool for a few day's last week & was hoping to see if John & Sketch were OK? But we never seen them around 😢

[@AdikiaMedia]

@@Ladychezz75 no I never seen them and I was hoping to, but glad I never in a way because I’m hoping they’re in accommodation now.

[@Ladychezz75]

@AdikiaMedia John probably not? 😢 but Sketch maybe in a hotel if mark has seen him from amazing grace there.

[@Ladychezz75]

I know mark put a post on about how it took 4 hours for him to contact SWEP & sure he said he got 4 off the street's, but that only happens when temp is like 0! 😭

[@Ladychezz75]

Nice to hear yea voice for the 1st time ever too matey 👍 👌 😀

[@AdikiaMedia]

@@Ladychezz75 that’s ridiculous! Yes Blackpool SWEP is triggered at 0, that’s absolutely ridiculous in my opinion

[@dylancarter1831]

I cannot understand how a football club can qualify to use eminent domain to expand. Like the other street that is being brought up for yet another university campus. It's a joke, an utter joke system.

[@AlexanderMclntosh]

Its a shame

[@AdikiaMedia]

@@AlexanderMclntosh it really is mate

[@Leo-dr4qm]

Central drive only been booming for crack since 95

[@frederickmuhlbauer9477]

Why so many ( barbers)

[@allancain384]

Hi my name's Alan here You need to talk to walk on the wild side he's a Blogger in Blackpool Contact him he'll tell you what the real story is

[@AdikiaMedia]

@@allancain384 he’s literally just commented on this video Alan 👍

[@Meepsmusic63]

@Adikia Media Hey there. And im not talking about the likes of you when i say this, (Your the real deal) But, I dont normally like these kinds of channels. IE Man or woman walking around with a camera trying to provoke other people into a reaction for the sake of fame, there own ego and views for financial gain at the expense of hard working people. the thing is this, if the auditors keep behaving in the way they are then its gona cause the government to pass a law that would result in all street camera work to be banned, and i think that is the intention of government at this time, ie give them enough rope and pow, banned the lot of ya.. which would be disastrous for real people like you, billy moor etc who are simply trying to help other people.A final note is that im not against all auditors, some of them are out right hilarious and at most commit just harmless banter.. its the malevolent toxic ones im on about.. As for you, I think you are doing a wonderful Job, ive watched quite a few of your videos while not loged into youtube.. so well done, keep up this essential work of highlighting these lost ones.. ps, i was born in birkenhead but moved to plymouth in 1985

[@AdikiaMedia]

@@Meepsmusic63 thank you for your comment. I totally agree with you, I don’t think it’s long before filming in public is banned or you need a license, because others are antagonising vulnerable people with this. It’s not nice to see to be honest. Neither are the egotistic middle aged men that point the camera on themselves because they think they’re more relevant. I just want to highlight problems that I think everyone should know about and see it to believe it. Thanks again for your comment 👍

[@KebabMusicLtd]

Come off it. Clearly the four home owners who still reside on Henry Street are simply hanging on for a better offer. It may be the case that there are other properties in the same location that are valued more, but that is because those other properties don’t back onto a Football Ground. Let’s look at the facts:- 21 Henry Street: Value as of 06 Sept 2023 = £80,000 (value 31 March 2021 = £64,000) 17 Henry Street: Value as of 09 June 2021 = £66,380 05 Henry Street: Value as of 10 Aug 2021 = £60,000 (value 17 Dec 2013 = £52,144) 24 Henry Street: Value as of 21 Nov 2019 = £52,500 15 Henry Street: Value as of 05 Dec 2014 = £49,500 That land at the top of the road which you claim was a garage was nothing of the sort. Up until August 2015, there were two small hut-sized properties on there, similar in build to that little wooden building that still stands there. The land would probably be worth £140,000 as they could build two semi-detached houses on there. I agree that a lot more could be done for the street-dwellers in the town, but street-dwellers have got to want to be helped. Not just a hand-out, but a desire to improve their lot. If they simply give hand-outs to every street dweller that turned-up, then everyone would come and doss in Blackpool. A friend of mine tried to help a street-dweller, put him up in his spare-room for a couple of days. Got him in contact with one of the local hostels etc. Gave him some clean clothes and put some food in his belly. One morning my friend woke up to find his guest had gone, gone back to the streets, gone back to the lifestyle he preferred. I suppose to some of them, they prefer the lifestyle of having no responsibility for anything other than where they might get their next 20 pence. (That’s a true story). Sadly also, there are many who take advantage of the street-begging lifestyle who are clearly not on the streets. People you will find huddled in shop doorways, or infront of the busy pubs. They’re the same faces every day. Amazingly, they turn-up each day in a change of clothing and start their shift again. Or they may have a large bulldog with them. The cost of keeping such an animal is not cheap, so how can they afford, I wonder? It’s a reality of life that some of these people are already drawing benefit but they feel they deserve more. The best way to help people on the street is to buy them a sandwich or a hot meal. Any money you might give them will only be wasted on nose-candy.