Three main things have destroyed / are destroying our Town and City center's. 1. Online shopping: the likes of Amazon and similar have taken over and people would rather sit at home and have things delivered to their door than go out and buy from a shop. 2. Out of town shopping centers: these have been built out in the suburbs and the major shops like ASDA, Sainsburys, DIY stores etc etc have moved in and out of Town. 3. Many City and Town centers are experiencing a rise in crime committed by drunks, druggies, and gangs. Antisocial behavior is frightening decent people away. Unless the "powers that be" sit up and smell the roses soon, and do something our Cities and Towns are finished.
I disagree with you, if 1&2 were correct they would apply everywhere, but this is demonstrably not the fact. Regards 3 there were plenty of drunks drugs and gangs around in the 70s and 80s, didn't stop us going out and enjoying ourselves and staying out of trouble
Sadly many more places are going to end up like this. Especially when various councils start removing city car parking spaces, to limit the number of cars that can go there, which will limit the number of shoppers going to town. All to help the environment of course..
Like so many other towns/small cities - I diagnose massive over enrichment leading to huge pinch on housing, destruction of community and small shops.😢
There's so much potential for small and large businesses, with those empty properties. But, with no investment or job creation, it's only going to get worse.
I tried for years to find somewhere to open a business in Stoke on Trent but the rents are just too high to justify taking the risk. I'm afraid the brextards have now sealed the same fate for the rest of the septic Isle. Bad food, bad weather and stupid people. The worst thing is that the scum who vote tory and voted to leave the euhave trapped decent people like myself in the rotting corpse of little england and they will find there's nothing more dangerous than a trapped creature in a doomed country.
So when did the levelling up start, oh it didn't did it!? I'm familiar with Hanley more so, and sad to see such a thriving town, turn to this. Will the buildings be converted into flats and houses, or demolished first, then build, either way it's a sad ending to an historical industrial town in Staffordshire!
My god, things were awful when I lived here but now... I've never seen anything like it. I can safely say I'm never coming back. It's positively post apocalyptic.
My congratulations to the town planning department. This must be one of the most ‘pedestrian-friendly’ town centres in the country. There is hardly any motorised traffic. If there were any cyclists, I am sure they would be delighted. Even so I noticed the ‘pay-for-parking’ machines, which must bring in vast revenues and the double yellow lines, which are, no doubt, still patrolled in the hope of issuing a few fixed penalty notices. My advice - go to a garden centre instead. They sell everything these days and don’t charge you anything to park.
We allowed the Chinese to visit our Potbanks and film how we made everything, this was in he 70's and guess what they employed people to go Iive there mainly managers to to take everything away from us.
First councils made it difficult to get into towns cities with abhorrent parking fines one way systems bus lanes and cycle lanes…then force us to shop at retail parks free parking etc, then on line comes plus big supermarkets under cutting small businesses like butchers green grocers and boutique clothing
Moved out of Longton in my 20s, moved overseas in my 30s and never looked back. This place is unrecogniseable to the place I grew up in, it no longer means anything to me!
Have to disagree, unfortunately for Hanley specifically, it just started to get run down, and then it went into a downward spiral to what it is today. If it was online shopping all places would be like this!
This is what happens when you close down the industrial base, potbanks, steel, coal mining, electrics factories etc that once teemed with life creating retail and entertainment industry all now exported abroad killing the towns and cities of the UK.
I avoid Hanley as much as possible. But what they have done to Hanley, they are busy doing to Newcastle under Lyme too. The towns are disappearing, and flats are appearing. Complete dumps full of drug users, prostitutes and homeless people. Used to be real buzzing areas, long gone.
Leveling up skipped stoke. There is a BBC documentary on Ireland troubles where they show footage from decade's ago in black and white. They wanted to recreate some scene's of the conflicts in Ireland and so they sectioned off a part of burslem/middleport in place of Ireland as it still looks the same as it did many decades ago/worse than it did in most places. I bet Ireland is even more modernised than here. They came with a troop carrier n everything.
Lose the primary industry like ceramics, and fail to attract inward investment in other businesses. All the other supporting industries like rmining and engineering have also been destroyed. People without work and money lose hope, shops can't survive without customers, and a depressing cityscape doesn't encourage visitors. Life and the future for Stoke-on-trent citizens is depressing, with little sign of improvement, so what can they do?
@@PopularesVoxThe tories have been in power for 80% of the time post war. Every time labour gain power theyrepicking up the pieces then the scum classes get conned again and vote them back in.
@@GeoffreyEvans-x5x No mate, its been every British government for the last 4 dacades. This particular area has suffered through an absolute decimation of the pottery industry by foreign competition and a complete absence of government support, as well as a failure to attract inward investment. In 2002 during a Labour government, one of the largest Royal Doulton moved its Royal Albert brand to Indonesia, closing its last remaining Stoke factories and making 500 potters redundant. This followed a slew of factory closures that reduced ceramics employment in the Potteries from 45,000 in 1975 and 23,000 in 1991, 13,000 2002 to a few hundred today.
Three main things have destroyed / are destroying our Town and City center's.
1. Online shopping: the likes of Amazon and similar have taken over and people would rather sit at home and have things delivered to their door than go out and buy from a shop.
2. Out of town shopping centers: these have been built out in the suburbs and the major shops like ASDA, Sainsburys, DIY stores etc etc have moved in and out of Town.
3. Many City and Town centers are experiencing a rise in crime committed by drunks, druggies, and gangs. Antisocial behavior is frightening decent people away.
Unless the "powers that be" sit up and smell the roses soon, and do something our Cities and Towns are finished.
I disagree with you, if 1&2 were correct they would apply everywhere, but this is demonstrably not the fact. Regards 3 there were plenty of drunks drugs and gangs around in the 70s and 80s, didn't stop us going out and enjoying ourselves and staying out of trouble
Sadly many more places are going to end up like this. Especially when various councils start removing city car parking spaces, to limit the number of cars that can go there, which will limit the number of shoppers going to town.
All to help the environment of course..
Like so many other towns/small cities - I diagnose massive over enrichment leading to huge pinch on housing, destruction of community and small shops.😢
We live in Norwich, there is nothing anywhere like this in our city. What a dump stoke really is.
I live in Stoke and I agree with you.
Welcome to the new world order all by design
same I live in stoke city it is a dump .
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Must be prayer time 😂🤣
There's so much potential for small and large businesses, with those empty properties.
But, with no investment or job creation, it's only going to get worse.
I tried for years to find somewhere to open a business in Stoke on Trent but the rents are just too high to justify taking the risk. I'm afraid the brextards have now sealed the same fate for the rest of the septic Isle. Bad food, bad weather and stupid people. The worst thing is that the scum who vote tory and voted to leave the euhave trapped decent people like myself in the rotting corpse of little england and they will find there's nothing more dangerous than a trapped creature in a doomed country.
So when did the levelling up start, oh it didn't did it!? I'm familiar with Hanley more so, and sad to see such a thriving town, turn to this. Will the buildings be converted into flats and houses, or demolished first, then build, either way it's a sad ending to an historical industrial town in Staffordshire!
Stoke on Trent is more like a zombie apocalypse and a complete ghost town
My god, things were awful when I lived here but now... I've never seen anything like it. I can safely say I'm never coming back. It's positively post apocalyptic.
OK I now live in London but know that bit of town well. What the heck happened?
It's called, Tory Britain!!!!
My congratulations to the town planning department. This must be one of the most ‘pedestrian-friendly’ town centres in the country. There is hardly any motorised traffic. If there were any cyclists, I am sure they would be delighted. Even so I noticed the ‘pay-for-parking’ machines, which must bring in vast revenues and the double yellow lines, which are, no doubt, still patrolled in the hope of issuing a few fixed penalty notices.
My advice - go to a garden centre instead. They sell everything these days and don’t charge you anything to park.
We allowed the Chinese to visit our Potbanks and film how we made everything, this was in he 70's and guess what they employed people to go Iive there mainly managers to to take everything away from us.
In the early 80s The Specials sang about the "Ghost Towns." Seems some of this is coming true.
First councils made it difficult to get into towns cities with abhorrent parking fines one way systems bus lanes and cycle lanes…then force us to shop at retail parks free parking etc, then on line comes plus big supermarkets under cutting small businesses like butchers green grocers and boutique clothing
Moved out of Longton in my 20s, moved overseas in my 30s and never looked back. This place is unrecogniseable to the place I grew up in, it no longer means anything to me!
Some post apocalypse music would go well with this video.
can you do one around Yates Fire yet?
Will do
What camera do you use?
Dji pocket
People buy all their stuff online and still expect shops to trade.There is your problem.
I agree
Have to disagree, unfortunately for Hanley specifically, it just started to get run down, and then it went into a downward spiral to what it is today. If it was online shopping all places would be like this!
@@bj3680 I reckon in many years to come there won’t be any shops to visit everything is like u said online these days and things much cheaper
So shocked its been a while since i ws in hanley didnt realise it was this bad
I'll never criticise Dumfries again.
Was this a sunday?
Well done I say to your councillors
High street shops are finished 😢
This is what happens when you close down the industrial base, potbanks, steel, coal mining, electrics factories etc that once teemed with life creating retail and entertainment industry all now exported abroad killing the towns and cities of the UK.
CITY OF BYRUTE !! ohh they've better place than Stoke-on-Trent !!
Macclesfield down the road is doing ok.
I guess stoke has got nothing going for it.
Why don't you speak in this videoi, describe what is happening, talk to local people about rheir home town? Without that I think this is pointless
I avoid Hanley as much as possible. But what they have done to Hanley, they are busy doing to Newcastle under Lyme too. The towns are disappearing, and flats are appearing. Complete dumps full of drug users, prostitutes and homeless people. Used to be real buzzing areas, long gone.
Leveling up skipped stoke. There is a BBC documentary on Ireland troubles where they show footage from decade's ago in black and white. They wanted to recreate some scene's of the conflicts in Ireland and so they sectioned off a part of burslem/middleport in place of Ireland as it still looks the same as it did many decades ago/worse than it did in most places. I bet Ireland is even more modernised than here. They came with a troop carrier n everything.
Really sad
What a waste
What an opportunity
The bones are still there
It just needs people who care
Give it to them for free
Really sad
Lose the primary industry like ceramics, and fail to attract inward investment in other businesses. All the other supporting industries like rmining and engineering have also been destroyed.
People without work and money lose hope, shops can't survive without customers, and a depressing cityscape doesn't encourage visitors. Life and the future for Stoke-on-trent citizens is depressing, with little sign of improvement, so what can they do?
Glad I moved out 2012
And yet they line up to vote Tory in England... I never did get that!
Not just "Tory" mate, every British government that allowed this country to decline over several decades.
@@PopularesVoxThe tories have been in power for 80% of the time post war. Every time labour gain power theyrepicking up the pieces then the scum classes get conned again and vote them back in.
No mate just Tories did videos like this circulate pre 2010?
@@GeoffreyEvans-x5x No mate, its been every British government for the last 4 dacades. This particular area has suffered through an absolute decimation of the pottery industry by foreign competition and a complete absence of government support, as well as a failure to attract inward investment.
In 2002 during a Labour government, one of the largest Royal Doulton moved its Royal Albert brand to Indonesia, closing its last remaining Stoke factories and making 500 potters redundant. This followed a slew of factory closures that reduced ceramics employment in the Potteries from 45,000 in 1975 and 23,000 in 1991, 13,000 2002 to a few hundred today.
ill never get how many half witted folks there are out there that think that voting for labour would have made any difference 🤣
Ok
Rent free for ten years
Now go turn these places around
Community spirit
Elbow grease
Volunteers
A new beginning
Stoke on Trent in general is a complete dump and it’s gradually getting worse.