Local people in East Salford UK get together with their elected representatives and agree on one thing - the area is being exploited by faceless investors, with companies registered overseas, who have no interest in the people or places where they want to erect enormous skscrapers of endless apartments - purely for the purposes of generating personal profits for themselves. These rich people are so cowardly they won't even face the local residents and hear their concerns.

Green Giraffes Sat 27 July 2024 St Clements church - PLANNING

It's an old song, sung in a million ways already, but Jane and Mike have adopted the Woody Guthrie original for their own problems in East Salford, North West England, where property developers are threatening to destroy the shopping precinct nearby and replace it with a building site - for 10 years (their plans).
Oh, these tax dodgers are promising that the shopping sheds will be replaced with graceful tower blocks of flats and apartments (eventually) and there will be 3,300 'homes' - actually, not homes, but mainly one bed apartments. (Any families wanna move into a 1-bed, anyone?)
Also, they promise a new 'park', (once the brick dust has died down and the diggers been taken away), which comprises a winding path through fake grass and some new (small) treelings. Of course, that will cost them some money for such 'facilities', so there will be no donation to improve local needs, such as more doctors and school places. No, nothing about that.
Oh, and the 3.3k residents, new, will get their own parking places, of course, (but they might have to fight over them. There are planned to be 600, only).

'This Land is Your Land' (Woody Guthrie) New words: The Jane and Mike Band)

Mike Scantlebury is a part of the band, radio show and song writing team known as 'The Jam'. No, Paul Weller he ain't. JAM stands for 'Jane and Mike' and you'll not just find them on Mixcloud but also Youtube and various websites and Blogs. It's modern songs, (in a folk idiom), radio shows in a 'Richard and Judy' idiot, and songs like 'Dit Dit Dit', (which, as we all know, stands for S.O.S. - good enough for The Titanic. Who knows, Salford might hit an iceberg, soon).

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