“i have just read alot of horrible comments aboout this estate. Yes i have had problems with kids when i first moved into my house but that is just a few who's parent can't be bothered to do anything. I have lived in my house for 5 years and my 10 month old daughter is four generation of my partners family to live in this house. my partner is in the merchant navy, our whole family works and we work hard to keep our homes nice. All the family own homes on ope and are very upset at the thought of them being pulled down. So before you judge get to know people on the estate because not everyone should be written off. I had the same opinion before i moved here.”

“all you people putting the estate down and saying its a waste of money, its just jealously because its not you area. if all goes to plan then all you whingers would love to live in an area like ours.”

“I live on Orchard park myself and I am somewhat annoyed at some comments regarding the area that I live in, Yes there is a few elements that let the area down but that is the case in alot of areas.
what concerns me is that alot of people regard the whole area as scum however should they be prepaired to look properly they would see we are a community just like a village however my personal opinion is that we as an area have been failed by the government,
The total inadiquate policing in the area, the lack of funding by the council, yes I know we had kitchens fitted but these houses have been up since the 60s and was in need of refurbishments and very little else is done, there are various centres in the area for kids and young adults but recieve little or no funding yet we live day in day out watching a multi-million council building being erected and the first bit of good news the area recieves for alot of years gets met with anger and insults to be honest I would like to meet some of these people who wrote the horrible comments and should imagine their quality of life is the same as mine.
Orchard park is a wonderful area sure it has some issues but this news is wonderful and well recieved by all to know that finally we all are going to be given a chance just one last thing remember Bransholme was apparently not a good place to spend money on and now look at it crime is down quality of life has gone up and this is all down to investment come down and see for yourselves dont just listen to heresay because its nonsence”

“I have lived on ope all my life, I own my own house and both my husband and me work. Our children are well educated and are not like the 'scum' which peiple seem to think live on the estate. It is full of decent people who value the community which they live in, there are the minority which live everywhere who try and spoil things. Generations of people live in the area and there are a lot of close family networks. I agree that the regeneration of the estate can only be good for the estate but wiping out the community will cause more problems and where exactly are we all supposed to go when the council housing list is in the thousands! There are too many do gooders weho have no idea of what areas are like because they never visit them and only look at information/numbers on bits of paper, its about time that these eople stopped assuming what people want and actually talk to the people who live in the area and ask us what we want instead of telling us what we will get!”

“Whatever the outcome you can bet more green fields will be built on - the environment can get stuffed as far as politicians are concerned. They just talk a good job then do precisely the opposite.”

“Some useful info on the urbanrim website /Orchard Park/Transformation.

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“gobsmacked on how much stupidity is out there, hull

I'm sorry to correct you, but below is an extract from Northern Area Housing Board Minutes
Dated; Monday, 5th January, 2009

Kingston upon Hull City Council
5 Jan 2009 ... Paragraph 5 - states that the cost of meeting the Decent Homes Standard for a flat in Orchard Park is £36000 per unit.”

“Gobsmacked, you make some very relevant and well informed points. Unfortunately, I think you are wasting your time. This forum is primarily for people to state their uninformed prejudices. The social and environmental problems endemic in areas of social housing and poorly maintained private rented housing are extremely complex in their causes and potential solutions. This attempt at improving the physical state of Orchard Park ought to be applauded and supported. Unfortunately, trying to understand such complex issues is difficult and requires a degree of independent thought and will inevitably result in the conclusion that the problems are varied, complex and difficult to resolve and, even worse, are not likely to be the fault of any one person, institution or ideology. It is so much easier to insult and abuse the people who live there and make irelevant racist comments.”

“mark you are a unfortuately right but thats because the previous Labour led council do not believe in PFI even though it is a New Labour concept. This is the 6th and final round for housing and all the money has gone to other cities who applied indeed many Labour Councillors are opposed to Building Schools and for the the Future and Gateway because they are PFI. When it is the only game in town you do what must be done but I worry about costs. The reason for no consultation as yet is simple the Area Housing Board and the Local Councillors felt they did not want to get peoples hopes up again, with a plan before the bid was declared incase it was lost and again their was no investment.”

“Large parts of Orchard park got regenerated not that long back ago,a good friend of mine was working on it and he told me no sooner that they were tidying up the houses (i.e. new kitchens etc) they were trashing them. While im not saying everyone on ope is like this a large majority of them are. Its just a sad fact,i dont see why millions should be spent on these kinds of people when hard working people who live elsewhere have to put up with a severe lack of funding spent in their areas.I hasten to add areas which will be then looked after by the residents and not wrecked by social misfits! Instaed of wasting millions on homes that are going to be defaced at the first chance, why not tart up decent areas,you know repair the pot holes in roads, flowers and new trees planted etc for the rest of us?”