Who's going to buy them . Nobody wants to live up north . Everything above Birmingham is dead and never coming back .

Very well said! 👍🏻

What annoys me is when people like you have opinions but are totally clueless. There is a mass housing shortage on our tiny island and the government have a quota to construct 300,000 new houses per year, but consistently fall short.

​@@FarmsVilla no, not well said. Completely moronic.

@@kenstills4406 so why not regenerate these houses instead of taking more greenbelt land? what makes you not clueless?

Just saw the news that 300 tenants fought for one property in Bristol. Also my friend had to go through a bidding war for her rented studio in London last year. The only modern solution will be to make remote working more common so people can scatter around the country more. Because many workers down south were people who fled dead northern towns, surely many wouldn’t mind moving back if the towns were made nice. Problem is the locals left behind, they usually don’t understand how this could have happened and are extremely bitter towards outsiders or non poor people, which is scaring away any redevelopment efforts

Hopefully, remote working addresses this, a lot of jobs can be done from home.

I do some remote work (freelance video work) and one issue with it is people from other countries can do the same work as you for a $1phr which makes it nearly impossible to find ok paid jobs let alone good paying ones. I'm not sure if this would become a problem for uk companies working in other fields but I do wonder if they would get to the stage when they question why they would pay uk staff 30k plus a year for a job they could pay somebody 5k a year for overseas.

Never forget that its no accident this is the case. So long as the right people are making a fortune they really don't care about the human cost elsewhere. The UK is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

@@creationbeatsuk the rot set in when everything was sold to foreign investors from the 1970s onwards by Margaret Thatcher.

Problem is the Tories don't give a shit, infact I bet good money on them even laughing about it

@@UnjustifiedRecs It's not just them though. Labour had 13 years and didn't do anything about it either.

@@Martin-88 aye, they are all pretty bad but there is no redeeming features of the conservatives, blatant day in day out robbery and illegal activity and they just keep getting away with it

​@@UnjustifiedRecs those houses are on sale for over a decade, clearly noone wants them

@@AlainnCorcaigh exactly our point, these could be renovated to a minimum standard and be used for social housing, but instead the are rotting

They’ve given up here I reckon

Once again it is a case of continuous change of local government. I dont know why it is that when ever I see an old town/village in decline in the UK , it seems to always have had its own local council taken away from them.

@@he1ar1 The country is falling apart at the seams in real time and those in power do not seem to give a damn.

Totally💯

So I assume someone once owned the empty properties? Or are they council properties? I'm curious to what happens if they're owned by someone, do they just get absorbed back into the government once empty?

Take me back to the Welsh Streets as a child and live a few streets away from Madryn Street no/9 home of Ringo Starr before they moved to Admiral Grove around the corner....This all happened late fifties ...memories

Toxteth was a no go zone all throughout my childhood. It was wrecked and notorious for being bad.

Good to hear from people who are from here. As you say, the people are amazing. Cheers for watching!

Coal miners were proper people I’m from cardiff my great great grandfather was a coal miner killed in the massive mining disaster in 1913 universal colliery senghennyd

Now it's smack head central

Drugd criminals and sunderland supports aye

​@bigcheesy718 they put smack where they wanted to to destroy

Yeah that would be more reassuring if there were loads together good point 👍

Trouble is investors from down south who don't know the area well have done a similar thing and it didn't work out, houses get trashed, rent doesn't get paid etc.

@@jimmy1671 Perhaps Alternative finance lenders could fill this gap JV with councils etc , agree its risky for small investors , rent schemes could be sorted.

@@richardmcdougall233 There's been many people and associations try and do things like that unfortunately, until you truly live here you would understand. Naive southern investors think if they buy up 10-20 run down houses plus a little renovation= total profit have been proven time and time again it's wrong, they still do to this day try with little success. Do a house up with 10k, get 3 months of paid rent 900, then Tennant gone but needs a further 10k spending cos copper gone and boiler took and house trashed. Eventually in years to come they will all be knocked down and council or who ever will have to buy out all the owned houses which is what some owners are clinging onto.

People desperate for houses, enpty rows of property. How sad nobody can find a way to make this work.

Hey thank you for this. Such a nice comment to read, nice for others to feel that importance of heritage 😀😀

It's not due to the mines shutting down. It's bad planning by a Tory government. This post is a touch hyperbolic. One story by a disenchanted gramps is far from the entire political history. At the time Thatcher was telling the UN that global warming was a problem and that this was part of the reason she had set a plan in place to shut down the mines; all the while she was setting up deals with Russian gas and Saudi oil. The mines were actually slowly closed over decades, not suddenly like this post suggests. This post is inferring that the destitution is due to fossil fuel extraction being mitigated. That's fossil fuel lobbying if I ever heard it. The real problem is that no progressive industries replaced the old because capitalists moved their investments abroad and away from UK tax laws. It was a right-wing capitalist lobbied policy that was scribbled on a napkin by Thatcher's mentors of her yuppy youth. Using the city of London as the main cash cow by funnelling all the dirty petrochemical company cash from countries without regulation through London banks and back into the pockets of oligarchs clean and tax-free. Now hawkish developers are profiting on what has been stolen from our community by autocratic wealth-driven snobs in Westminster and their greedy ilk from abroad. All the far-right do is point the finger of blame at others. They are now accusing China of commercial aggression by, what they have termed as; flooding the market with EV's. No. It is not aggressive. It is a necessity the UK gov should have already planned and have been doing. But the Etonians and their bigoted core of politicians were too busy counting the backhander cash from fossil fuel extraction; companies that have been raking in vast amounts of cash without putting any back into the public purse. The mines may have closed but the money is still there. And it is the fossil fuel companies who are holding onto it bc they want it for that rainy day when their mining operations end. They should be investing in society and progressive tech but aren't bc they don't know how to do anything else but suck people dry.

The mines had to eventually shut down anyway. Coal is disgusting.

@@bluegold21 "It's Capitalisms fault that central planning the economy doesn't work" 10/10. You even managed to work in praising china like the little socialist drone you are.

@@bluegold21 emmmmmmmmmm I grew up in a pit village. It is actually the best thing that ever happened. Any teary eyed analysis is not just false it's propaganda. There was a period of stagnation prior to 79' which meant the situation needed a more radical solution. I promise you having lived in these areas a lot of people voted conservative because they knew socialism didn't work. They were living proof. The people were mean, limited and had a sense of self entitlement that made you vomit. I got a good education with the aim of getting out of there, went to London, got a good job and became a multi millionaire. Without those radical Thatcher reforms I would have stayed and spent time in jail because when you grow up in these places you draw a line. Any bullying of you or people you love, any meanness, any thieving gets a response. When you live like that all the time you lose that sense of fear. Fear is an important emotion it keeps you alive and healthy. I know what you are thinking .... you are thinking I am a one off in my year/ in my crowd or group of mates. No. I am actually in the majority. Everyone that had something about them got out of there.... They may not have made a lot of money but they had the experiences to understand that some people were too mean to function.

@@bluegold21 Darlin' Harold Wilson shut down more mines than Thatcher did. I'm not a Tori, nor an apologist for them, but people always want things to be simple, black and white, but the reality is different.

yep. There should be nobody homeless in this country. Theres thousands of empty properties in every town and city.

It's a noble and altruistic cause but homelessness is an extremely complex problem and nearly all those who are have huge health problems both physical and mental. Plus government would rather spend the money they are quite happy to steal from us benefitting the rest of the world before our own.

Homeless can't take care of themselves yet take care of a home

@@NaNa-wj8tw You mean sending Billon's to other countries so they can fight other peoples war's .😠

lab: Stoke on Trent has an area the same as this - The Council sold them for *£1* but the catch was that you HAD TO take on a mortgage of £30k, from the Council, to do up the house which you bought. Yes, it did work, but the area is still the worst one in Stoke, and many buyers went on the dole ... and so the downward spiral begins - again 😒😒

I saw a program a few years ago where they took a street like this, forget where it was, and the would-be tenants were trained in doing up the houses and once finished moved in. Not only did they get a nice home, they learned new skills, created a sense of community and felt a sense of pride in the street they had renovated.

Nice big house with drunken zombies wandering through the yard

Sounds like Habitat for Humanity

@@LilyGazou it's a crying shame something isn't done about these empty properties going to ruin when someone who is in need could be housed. Because you have a home and comfortable it's easy to scoff at people's ideas. If you were in need of a home yourself would be praying or begging for a property just like that and crying that they were empty when they could be in used with you in one of them.

I wrote similar some time ago, on a similar site - and had to check I wasn't reading my own comment. Every so often, I go to write I agree! and find I'm agreeing with myself! (Blush) Those places could be cleared and 1 bedroom bungalows with no steps put in for disabled, with bigger gardens. Small studio apartments x 4 with small yards, to make it easier for pensioners to have a safe fenced place to let the dog go to the loo. Some streets could have 1 larger house on 3 blocks, to get nicer houses and nicer gardens.

Yeah it really is. Thank you for watching 👍

try sleeping in tent in woods

People used to say that about some burrows in NYC where, now, a modest, renovated townhouse is over 2 million.

@@colettelongo2080cannit compare horden terraces to new york city can we 😂😂😂

Respectfully, you are far more informed on this than I am, as an American who has no idea what labor/supplies cost there (despite studying abroad in London and having been to multiple UK cities dozens of times over the last 30 years). Yet, I honestly believe 15-20K per property sounds too low? Heck, if that is all it would cost, I'd hire you to renovate and rewire the building I buy there. Seriously.

The state of some of these houses would cost way more than £20,000 to bring up to a livable standard. If people are trying to sell these for £20-30 grand then there is no point in anyone trying to develop these. They will lose money trying to sell them.

I loved to read that !

Amazing memories thank you for sharing this.

And how they loved grafting down a pit? They didn't wish for a cushier job. If the won the the pools or lottery they would have soon got bored and begged to go back and work down pit?!

Sorry to hear about that situation you have been in, but it’s very interesting to get a perspective from that side so thank you for this 🙌🙌

It's a fix That's Britain Totally backward More concerned with looking big on the world stage

Vote for independent candidates only.

well said! I thought all these problems I saw could be fixed by labour, that this all happened because of neoliberalism under thatcher. But the truth - or what I think is the truth, that I'm beginning to understand - is that billionaires shouldn't be put in charge of people who can't even envision 100 thousand, that live day to day. I can hardly picture £100 tbh I don't believe any government can fix anything at this point because they're all so short term, so focused on re-election and lining their pockets. I'm not religious but I truly believe that the love of money is the root of all evil in this world. Hoarding wealth. Makes me feel ill. I don't like being pessimistic so if anyone has any input I'd be glad to hear it haha

Also - I should've said this sooner - thank you for sharing your experiences, I'm sorry you and our family had to go through that. I'm wishing you the best x

I lost the game, thanks

Ah thank you for this. I really appreciate you watching and for the nice words 😀

Great Video , of broken Britain Come up Tories. Bring Buttties and a flask and see how to keep trying your best 😭😭😭 😩😩😩😩😩😩

@AL I would negotiate that Offer if YOU were seriously interested in buying an abandoned property in this town ! UK Gov't should perform an Experiment on the Albanian Refugees by offering them Permanent Residency in a Work-To-Own Deal if they acquire an abandoned property then fix it up. Those Albanians could wash plenty of Cocaine $$$ thru real estate ventures in this town !

How can you hate a beautiful land as the UK. Surely its the vampire cunts who have stacked the laws against the slaves in the UK that need a wooden stake.

Immigration is the problem

That’s why I hate Australia just as much

Don't forget to vote labour and tories or another world economic forum supported group to fix everything!!

Ityll get bulldozed for modern buildings

Exactly what I was thinking! With more people working from home (myself included) and the RIDICULOUS house prices, decent houses starting at £250k. Seeing a house for £20k is a bargain!! I'm young and have the DIY mentality. If a bunch of us work from home move there and renovate, I can imagine it being revitalised. But it would take a lot of like-mindedness. The people are friendly. The only issue is the anti-social behaviour "this is why we can't have nice things!" because there's risk of it getting ruined, which is off-putting.

Who owns all these I wonder?

Yeah and this is just one small area. So many like it. Sad to see…but the people are all class!

The more pubs which close down the better in my view. My younger brother died at 40 thanks to liver failure due to alcohol and my father beat the shi* out of me and my step mum when I was a kid thanks to being drunk on whisky. Alcohol does more damage to society than anything else I know. Ban it.

All the investment is focused on London and the South East that’s the problem. The cities aren’t doing too badly but most northern towns have just been forgotten.

@@PeacockRhino such a shame, if the government was to revamp these areas it would bring employment to the areas for the people that are tradesman and woman, even if the government came up with a plan to get people involved with money to do it a idea that would benefit all but mostly the local people.

@ian x Liverpool has only recently had money thrown at it, but there’s still some areas with really cheap houses

It's such a strange situation. Homelessness and housing shortages but then whole streets of boarded up houses. Obviously the ones with the fake doors painted on them are all owned by the same person or organisation, no doubt gradually buying out the area until nobody wants to live there, so they can demolish it and build a new prestigious seaside development full of 4 bed detached houses. The few remaining residents will be fully aware of this too, and known to the "youths" trashing the place, so they get left alone and wait until their houses are the last ones to sell so they can be knocked down, and nobody new ever moves in because of the enormous risk to safety. So many problems could be solved so easily if everyone worked together to bring this area and others like it back to life, but there's no money in that, so they don't. People suck.

why? Wouldn't they be allowed to build new houses there?

@@mradventurer8104 to build new houses there they first need for all residents to be vacated. They also need planning permission in the event that happens. Then they'd need to spend a lot of money to have the area demolished. There are lots of stops along the way that would hinder a large scale development. If you own 4 out of 5 houses in a row but one is owned by someone else, you need to buy it from them. You wouldn't buy it at market value to complete a set if you could just wait a few years for it to fall into disrepair and pick it up for nothing. If a developer is collecting the properties as suggested by the fake door painted boards everywhere, they're playing the long game. It's not a good time for building right now either due to inflated material costs. That will likely normalise within a few years.

@@mradventurer8104 Much easier to get planning permission with the houses down and easier to get permission to bring them down if you can show there is no demand for them.

Yeah, they buy places and sometimes build a bit of cheap crap, but what they are really after is the ground. Then they slowly let the homes turn into disgusting derelict slums so that they'll easily get council permission to tear them down. Then they build something huge and fancy on which they make a whopping profit.

Yeah I really want to go explore some abandoned towns in America if I get the chance

Oh thanks so much for this. I was actually expecting a comment as such because I realised just after making that comment about the beach that it probably was never like I said due to the mines…so thank you for a real honest view of what it was like 👍👍👍

otherwise he wouldnt know itas a phone ringing :)) old timer :))

Hey thanks for this lovely comment 😀😀 nice feedback like this keeps me wanting to make stuff so that does the trick for me 👍👍

He'ds doing it to make money from the views on the video ,, have you not worked it out , you can do this on your phone as well ...

Slaves waiting on government waiting lists for months or years. Socialism in action.

Yeah crazy isn’t it. Clearly not a housing shortage

@@wanderingturnip So true 👍

It could be but Levelling up with this government is a complete fraud. Tunbridge Wells has got levelling up money, but Barnsley, because it has a Labour council has not got a penny.

Won't happen except for the usual pound shops, aldi's and lidl's. Our economy is now a low paid service industry and most manufacturing is outsourced to countries with a cheaper labour force.

@@stevenhull5025 True, but before people will live there there has to be local employment. I remember the times before the 1980's when we were a great manufacturing nation. In the post war rebuilding, most of the labour force lived in houses owned by the council, or the employer, at cheap rent which brought down our labour costs. End of coal was the end of cheap source of fuel & steel, & thus manufacturing. The frequent strikes in the '70's, miners, docks, car manufacturers, started it, then the sale of council housing, & increased cost of private housing.

Cheers for watching Joe means a lot 👍

No neighbours one of the reasons I'm a van dweller, wake up to different views and save hell of a lot on bills that I only have to work 2 days

Drugs infested with totally unemployment!

ummm drug fuelled, window smashing youngsters?

Yeah it really could

It's deliberate, like a lot of things.

Blackhall Rocks seems much smaller then Horden, are there empty houses as well?priced similarilly...still looking for my past of paradice 😏

Days of Horror. That's exactly why esate agents and auction houses don't show views of the interiors. Because they know that if potential buyers could view these houses they'd immediatly be put off bidding. I've looked through listing after listing of properties in this area, but as soon as I see, "No internal photos or viewing", I move on, knowing full well that they are not habitable without considerable work, time and money being spent on them.

If you do up one property and both sides are derelict what value if drug users burn those sides and your house goes. Likely difficult to insure

Unfortunately, Maggie took away all the peoples self respect as she just closed down their work and basically their lively hoods overnight with no chance of getting work anywhere else in the area. What could they do, live on the dole or move to another part of the country in search of work and that wasn't easy. I myself was made redundant five times during her reign and I wasn't a miner and lived in Bristol. I know the Unions caused a lot of problems at the time, but she was not interested in alternative employment for these areas, especially in the North, just defeating the Unions at any cost. Believe me we are still seeing the fall out from her policies almost 50 years later.

@@minixtvbox Thatcher was over 35 years ago, where was Labour when they were in power from 1997 to 2009? Then Cameron and the successive lot. Just saying Thatcher while ignoring everyone since then, plus local politicians. That's over 35 years, and all of Durham is under Labour controlled Councils. What have they done for Durham and the North East? What did Blair and Gordon Brown do?

​@@occiderisaethiopissa3702they further entrenched the moves Thatcher made mate, but it all began with Thatcher

@@occiderisaethiopissa3702 "What did blair and gordon brown do?" Besides leave the country with the highest satisfaction rates for public services like the NHS? How quickly these things are forgotten. Granted Labour didn't come up with a magical solution to fix Thatchers cack handed destructionism...but they didn't aggrivate the situation by closing down youth centres, and social services which the tories did under austerity! My question is, when Tories have been in charge for 20 of the last 30 years and have done most of the worst damage, why are you so dead focused on labour who have served half that time and didn't actively make the situation worse? Seems to me like you're trying hardder to justify something to yourself than anyone else.

Where's the best shop in Wakefield

Wasn't it Thatcher who moved from UK coal to cheap imports?

Hey appreciate the comment. How is Peterlee for houses?

I'm in Cheltenham and I felt the same visiting Durham and parts of Liverpool. Totally different atmosphere. It makes me think even the rough parts of Cheltenham are pretty!

@@EowynSoup I agree completely.

Thank you for watching 👍👍

Good video, but for a Co. Durham lad not to have heard the term "Marra" is baffling.

Thank for watching. It will be really interesting to go and see what this place looks like in 10 years…

@@wanderingturnip It will be the same, because governments do not care. Liverpool also has streets like this. Hartlepool also

Soon everyone with credit will be homeless, time for peeps to wake the Fck up

latest news.Seventh Street in Horden under police cordon after aggravated burglary...

It's very nostalgic that's for sure.

That is so interesting. Thank you for this, clarified what I already suspected 👍👍

@@wanderingturnip these houses were marketed at an easy 15% yield @ £400 p/m rental. But the sad truth was that most found it impossible to find decent tenants (or ANY tenants) due to the problems you mentioned on the video. We saw people taking losses and putting the houses up for sale again. And I guess it's still happening, judging by the empty houses. Figures looked good on paper, but in reality they were a liability.

So you are part of the problem then by association.

@@stevenhull5025 the problem with that area is deprivation and drug use.

Just a caveat: I bought my first house (2 bed end terrace) in a nearby town (starting with F) for £25k, in a similar area with void properties. I specifically chose an ex-housing association property due to minimum legal standards. I improved it and lived there for seven years until last year. Cheap, secure, solid housing. A few ASBO and Albanian weed growers, but those issues now gone. Not all buyers are professional landlords. Best thing I ever did to get a roof over my head for my own space.

that's exactly what I was thinking! These cheap houses would be such a good solution for remote workers who want to own a home, but it also would depend on the security of their remote work.

The problem isn’t the location or the house. It’s the community (the youth) that destroys houses/glasses and door. Unless someone wants to risk their life, it’s doesn’t seem worth it.

It's a depressed post-industrial town in the North East of England... not Byron Bay. The seaside is somewhat different too.

Hey I appreciate you watching. Good to hear from someone from Horden 👍👍

Thatcher ruined whole communities a lot of them still living in poverty to this very day

It was the same thing in the meat works here in HB ( New Zealand) .Generations working in the same place. All closed down now as well.

Back-breaking, lung-destroying work, for sure. An extremely dangerous and toxic job.

Great to hear from people who are from Horden. Really interesting stuff. Cheers 👍👍

The whole of the UK is going downhill not just Horden.

Always good to hear from people who know the area so cheers!

Hey thanks for getting in touch. Always really interesting hearing from people with personal history of the place. I actually went up again last week (this video was from march) to speak to the council. Apparently there are some big changes coming…

@@wanderingturnip I look forward to that video. I remember my school mate, bought his first house there in the 80's for about 13k, he sold it after about 9 months as every time he went out he was burgled! This is when drugs started to take hold. We used to go fishing of Horden beach and during the blackouts in the mid 70's we used to collect coal from the beach to help the pensioners keep there houses warm. I wondered if they had plans for the place as they have recently opened Horden train station, it had been closed nearly a 100 years I believe.

I hope the same ! Thanks for watching

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Thanks so much for this nice comment, I really appreciate it

Also that’s the link to the short I did of my dad opening his chair 😀

I really appreciate it people from the area getting in touch, so thank you for that. First hand perspectives of the place are really good to hear about. Do you think it will ever change there?

Thanks for watching I appreciate it!

It's rough living in parts of London, Manchester and Liverpool too.