Central News East: 18.06.1987: Leicester Housing

Summary

Bharat Patel reports from the Highfields area of Leicester where the council are urging the government to pay for urgent repairs to crumbling properties.

Year:

1987

Duration:

0:02:15

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

Central Television

Master format:

Betacam SP

Description

The council looked at a sample of fifteen homes and concluded that due to cracks and poor conditions they needed thirty thousand pounds worth of repair work each. The government is not prepared to spend the money on repairs and says the properties should be pulled down. Interview with Councillor David Middleton, housing chairman who was angry that the government had rejected the claim and called for money and not words. Views of terraced houses in Highfields that need repairs and brief interior shots including water damage. Vox pops with people in Highfields who did not want to leave and thought that they were being penalised by the government for voting in a Labour local MP.


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