“want try live in block of flats where people banging doors day and night because have no respect for the people around them just the scumbags cos they belong in the same league”

“thanks for the correction josie have misread me letter”

“CHANGES are being made to the way houses are allocated after a council admitted it had been too focused on filling properties rather than finding the right ones for tenants.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has drawn up amendments to its housing allocations policy, which include holding extensive interviews with tenants as soon as they apply for accommodation.

Officers hope it will mean people are put into the right properties, where they can settle and cause less trouble.

Good luck!

I've worked in social housing for 30 years and this is an age old problem, no-one has yet been able to address.

Anti-social tenants will always get housed, wether in Meir or any other area of the city.People have to live somewhere and despite the Councils best efforts and those of housing associations, there is still going to be a problem family coming to a place near you soon. People living in private sector accom. are even more prone as wannabe landlords will let to just about anybody on short term tenancies.

The courts cannot be relied upon because evictions become less due to the Human Rights Act,so nothing will change.

Short of 'ghettoising' large swathes of the population and restricting freedom of movement of known troublemakers (and let's face it, this won't happen) there is no answer. Good people will be driven out of their communities in search of a better life, but will seldom find it because the neandatals will have already got there first!”

“Is it true, if you run CCTV on your neighbours using their bathroom, showing it to others. No secret you could go miles & people say it was why they wouldn't shop in the City. Thank a rough ace, family know for drunken fights that pee-ed in the street when drunk at night get a house in Baldwins gate for free, when they have worked for 30 years. If thats payment for services then its benefit fraud.”

“JJ, you have overlooked Hillside RA, and although it don't involve my area as such, I'll be there to hear all sides”

“You will never get them living properly if they keep getting everything from the gangs for free. Take a family opposite me, I can go back to the70s, from parents stories the 50s & 60s that family were known for getting in trouble with the police, when I was a kid we sat in the dark at night, because when they were pee-ed up, they went banging on doors looking for a fight, usually those that were has old has their parents. The now adult elderly family haven't worked for decades. One has been bragging he was helping police, has said he had loads of money off the police & a house. Do I believe thats where the money came from no, but after 30 years off hanging a stick he didn't need, has if he did he & his brothers wouldn't be able to go out in the night & do what they were doing. Now thats not just benefit fraud, it puts a bad impression on people of the police. Also others have been done by the police, I have heard them talking while waiting to go into Fenton courts that they were alright they were doing it with the police. I was asked by passing police cars to do something out of my character. Theres no incentive to live right.”

“Sorry to correct you Paul of Meir but the Local Forum is on Thursday next at Pickford Place Community Centre starting at 6.30pm.
All RAs in the catchment area have been notified of this from the local office.
You have obviously been misinformed by someone from the local office.”

“i am the chairman of meir high residents association and would like to thank sheelagh davis and julie griffin for there attendance at the meeting friday 21st january when certain issues were raised and hopefully we can with there help build a stable community back to where it should be.meir is not bad area to live in has lived most my life on it and look forward to hopefully many more to come.we have only few months ago set our ra up and hopefully in the future with help try to erradicate some of the issues raised at the meeting in response to jj meir i myself look forward to the first meeting of local forum at meir office 6 30 pm thursday of which will be in attendance to see what goes on at these kind of meetings but understand that we all need to be pulling the same way for things to get better”

“The point from the first comment, I was trying put over is that, everyone expects everything for free. What made America a rich Country with a good standard of living was, JFKs comment don't ask what your Country can do for you ask what you can do for your Country. Wether working or not those who are employed by the gangs get everything for free, cars, haircuts, clothes, TVs, some cases houses, while they take of the saddos that worked no one cares about, everything for nothing doing nothing. I thought the DIY SOS was a lovely thing to do for that family, couldn't be more happy for them, rather them than others, but its the same idea something for nothing, the old days TV paid people to use their homes now they do them for free. All avoids tax, them those who live cognito, thats no Council tax or rent from the Govt,its bankrupting the City. We all know its no secret.”

“Unfortuanately I am in a awkward situation to move, I stay has I don't see family, they have been threatened with death if they come near me, so stay has its the only way they would find me it things change. I understand social is in need for those most vumerable, but alot of my street aren't like that, they are workers & help the other thats why I wouldn't have anyone to ask for help, nor would I have anyone in the area to speak to. The fact that drug addicts arew allowed to have families & turn the children to crime & drugs without anyone getting involved doesn't help. I also pray, for my missing family especially the little girl.”