Mmmmmmmmmmm...something doesn't quite add up in Stoke-on-Trent. Call me cynical or sceptical, or both, but one of the city's best-known developers, St Modwen, appears to have pulled a fast one.
For 10 years the firm has sat on the site of the old Stoke City ground, the Victoria Ground. The company pledged (heard this a few times) to build homes on the land.
Most people fancied this as it is off one of the major gateways into Stoke-on-Trent and we all wanted something to nose at as we travelled along the A50.
Now, out of the blue, and with the housing market in terminal decline (my mud hut is now worth 23 pence, down 14 pence) the firm has decided that due to "market conditions" (yawn...) it is now thinking of building some ugly, faceless warehouses.
Hilariously, St Modwen says they don't want the land to go to waste while the credit crunch is on. Errrrrrrr....so what about the previous 10 years, there wasn't much of a credit crunch on in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001..........zzzzzzzzzz
Me thinks that St Modwen didn't want to put up houses at all...slap my wrist...how dare you say such a thing...
So much for the regeneration of Stoke-on-Trent, bland, boring warehouses are hardly going to make the area a great place to live, are they?
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