yeah snap. Well obviously I didn't take her daughter......me neither..my friend said it was a dump..and she is always nice and polite about everything..
tho she was only visiting a uni with her daughter for a day..
yeah snap. Well obviously I didn't take her daughter......me neither..my friend said it was a dump..and she is always nice and polite about everything..
tho she was only visiting a uni with her daughter for a day..
Wow.Huddersfield is kept scrupulously clean, with local authority prioritising street cleansing, graffiti removal and street scene maintenance. So much so that when I stray across them big 'ills into Oldham et al I am immediately aware of the amount of graffiti. Kirklees have been big exponents of Street Scene as a concept. If a place looks tidy and well kept, folk feel safer and more comfortable. The "broken window syndrome" is well known phenomenon. The sight of graffiti, boarded shop fronts and litter-strewn streets makes people think that no one is taking responsibility or "in charge", (as in if they can't get the little things right, then no one is in control.) It's approached on a partnership basis, with street and community rangers and wardens, PCSOs and Neighbourhood cops all working towards reporting and tackling the environment. The concept stretches to housing areas too, with a requirement for all social housing landlords to tackle unkempt gardens, and even house frontages where appropriate. The Streetscene Directorate is also linked to housing, so it all dovetails.
https://www.kirklees.gov.uk/you-kmc/yourCouncil/place.aspx
Streetscene and Housing
Assistant Director: Kim Brear
Provides a responsive, integrated street based service which results in attractive, vibrant towns and neighbourhoods and which contributes to economic competitiveness and success of communities and individuals.
- Flint Street, Fartown, Huddersfield, HD1 6LG
- kim.brear@kirklees.gov.uk
- 01484 221000
Involving and engaging communities in the provision of high quality neighbourhoods and effective local services.
- Highways (except transport planning, development control and car parks)
- Streetscene:
- Refuse collection
- Waste disposal
- Street cleaning
- Centralised transport
- Parks and grounds maintenance
- Landscape architects
- Streetscene Action Team (rangers and dog wardens)
- Police community support officers
- Bereavement services
- Routine enforcement
- Strategic Housing - lead on housing strategy development and implementation, including the Housing Solutions/Option Service and Adaptation Service
- Management of the Housing Revenue Account and the relationship/performance management of Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing
is what!!!!!!!.....is very clean........
This is worth a listen (if you've got a spare 2 hours)
Live At Leeds - The Who
My son went to Leeds uni and still lives there 3 years after graduating, he and his girlfriend now live in a flat a stone's throw away from the market. They love the market and do almost all their shopping there. They reckon you can feed yourself for a lot less by shopping there than you can by using the supermarkets, and they have also bought quite a bit of other stuff there as well, such as furniture and their pet guinea pig. Obviously with you probably having lived there much longer have seen it even better than it is now.And not at it's best anymore.It is looking shabby at the moment.It needs a full overhaul.Sorry to say it went downhill after the fire.I know that was a long time ago,but breaking it up and putting fire walls in, has broken the open flow.It is very bitty now,us oldies can see it going downhill even more.
This is worth a listen (if you've got a spare 2 hours)
Live At Leeds - The Who
My son went to Leeds uni and still lives there 3 years after graduating, he and his girlfriend now live in a flat a stone's throw away from the market. They love the market and do almost all their shopping there. They reckon you can feed yourself for a lot less by shopping there than you can by using the supermarkets, and they have also bought quite a bit of other stuff there as well, such as furniture and their pet guinea pig. Obviously with you probably having lived there much longer have seen it even better than it is now.
I lived there from 1963 to 1972 and did all of my adolescent foolish stuff there. Also did my Masters at the Uni from 1976-77. At one time Leeds had the greatest area of green space of any city in Europe, and when the Council starting cleaning up the blackened buildings in the city centre after the Clean Air Act in 1966 it uncovered some lovely Victorian architecture. I have very fond memories of a brilliant city. I haven't been back since Mum died over ten years ago, so it may have changed since then, of course. I love living in Wales, but if I ever found myself on my own again, I would probably return.
I thought 'dirty Leeds' referred to the football team. One season of watching them at age 12 put me off football for life.
21/2 hour rush hour!Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield & Halifax all close down at 5pm, Leeds gets going
If Carlsberg did bitter it would.........oh hang on, they did, bought Tetleys out and ran it into the ground, gitsI lied when I said I hadn't been back since Mum died. I went back last year for another funeral, but I was only in the city centre for a short time and didn't take much in (other then the standard "what the heck have they done to xyz?").
Tetley bitter, Sam Smiths, Timothy Taylor's, Old P ... great place to learn your drinking skills.
I work in Leeds - it is much better than when I first arrived in 1998 and far better than when looking as a potential student in 1998.
@Cubist Kirklees might look after Huddersfield but in the dark arches of Dewsbury it appears they don't really care about us.