THE `EVERYBODY LOVES US’ AWARD
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CHARLESTOWN AND LOWER KERSAL NEW DEAL FOR COMMUNITIES
This organisation is so, so wonderful – according to its own website. On there you will find results from the last MORI survey that “have shown a positive change to awareness and attitudes within residents in Charlestown and Lower Kersal”.
It says that “Of those living in the area for less than two years, 32% were attracted to the area a `great deal’ or a `fair amount’ by improvements that have happened here recently.” What it doesn’t tell you is that the survey for this question was based on a massive sample of 36 people - which means that a mere 12 people were attracted to the area because of “improvements”, which have so far cost well over £30million.
Meanwhile, in the same survey, with a bigger sample of over 100 longer term residents, 75% of those who think they’re going to move in the next two years won’t be staying in the area.
The NDC also boasts that “those who felt that NDC has improved the area a `great deal’ or a `fair amount’ has dramatically increased from 22% in 2002 to 60% in 2006”. Funny then that 52% of people in the same survey felt that the area had either `not changed much’, `got slightly worse’ or `got much worse’.
We could go on all night about how less people are impressed with the quality of life in the area, how 48% of people in the survey think it’s still unsafe to walk around alone or at night, and that in the so-called community led regeneration project only one in four residents `feel that they can influence decisions in the area’. But we won’t…
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