Not satisfied with ‘secretly purchasing’ the Keel Row centre from Northumberland Estates for an undisclosed sum then choosing to close it down and build a training centre in its place leaving that decision out of the County Council’s public consultation, Northumberland Conservatives have now agreed at the highest level of Council to go further and buy up more commercial premises to ensure their ‘Energy Institute’ becomes the Monolith that dominates the empty shell of this once prosperous town.
Releasing stories through the press instead of informing residents who may wish to comment on the vast if not monumental change from the consultation held to decide the Blyth Town levelling up program of works since the same Conservatives failed miserably in delivering their promised 8000 jobs to bolster incomes and improve Blyth Towns retail offer is becoming the norm.
As pressure grows on the Conservatives at County Hall to deliver quality levelling up experiences County-wide in line with what residents want and desire to match the fact that Northumberland residents pay one of the highest council tax demands in the whole of England, the Blyth model and experience shows how their lack of vision, compassions for local needs, failure to listen and pathetic ritual of supporting Morpeth and Ponteland above all other townships is unacceptable.
This latest news report issued through the Chronicle illustrates why their destruction of Blyth as a retail centre doesn’t really matter to the current administration who have failed to improve Businesses everywhere but in their chosen nirvana.
With the huge rifts within the Conservative Party in Northumberland decision making has become ever more disparate, with demands including pressure from other elected Conservatives that external funding programs and spend,are brought into the public limelight. With this latest decision on levelling up from the Leadership and Secret Cabinet at County Hall being brought into question along with the £450m plus Borderlands spend also being kept secret from Councillors who are elected to protect residents from corruption and fraud.
Removing the ‘Heart of Blyth’ in a physical form from the annals of people's minds and developing a training facility in a town where the same Conservatives huge and repeatedly promised job creation schemes have fizzled out, most residents believe that the workforce for this training facility won’t reside or be recruited from the locale of Blyth Town, nor will it benefit or improve its economy in the slightest so how is a levelling up scheme that will raze ‘Blyth’s Heart’ to the ground going to benefit this historic shipping, mining and once prosperous town at all?
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/energising-blyth-northumberland-county-council-28806215
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/northumberland-borderlands-growth-deal-funding-28898761
https://www.northumberland.gov.uk/Economy-Regeneration/Programmes/Town-Centre-Regeneration/Energising-Blyth/Consultation.aspx
https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/politics/council/pathway-out-of-the-pandemic-northumberlands-8000-job-economic-recovery-plan-3092329
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