A dogs breakfast fit to give the dog indigestion is how I would describe which bits of land have and have not been transferred over to Tristar, along with the houses in Stock Transfer of the Council houses on Elm Tree. Parts are illogical and will no doubt cause problems. The present good relationship with Tristar and the Council will hopefully smooth things out so the dog does not need indigestion tablets - but it should not have happened like this. As I have written before, if only the Labour Government had changed the law, none of this need have happened.
There is hope for the future now, though, and the appalling state of some of the woodwork on the homes is planned to be replaced in 2012 / 13. As for much needed car parking - a lot will depend on how the land owndership issues pan out, but at least there is a very positive attitude to how improvements can be made from Tristar.
The estate walkabouts are good with representatives from Tristar, Council, and Police as well as Julia and myself. We all stood and looked at one difficult problem - what were we going to do ? Each of us (privately!) really wanted to say it was somebody else's - but whoever else was there, and just have to work at it together - no bad thing !
We didn't see any dogs looking poorly, but someone we met told us he had seen foxes by Elm Tree beck. Interesting.
However later in the day (on the way to a meeting with youth represenatives for them to talk to Councillors - but nobody was there!) I was struck by how beautiful the sky was. Don't dismiss Stockton as not being a very attractive place - just look at these (amateur) photos - and we have foxes too.
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