Where do you think new homes should be built? How do you feel about building on open spaces or fields to meet housing demands?
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00:00I definitely think the area not needs new housing, needs revitalised housing
00:05because there's a lot of empty derelict houses that has a lot of moulding but I
00:09definitely say more East Durham than our houses and places like Houghton, Houghton
00:15has a lot of empty housing that needs refurbished. Yes it needs more housing
00:19but not on Greenbelt, there's loads of industrial estates that have fallen to
00:23bits, there's loads of wasteland that could use rather than use Greenbelt but
00:27as always the council will give permission to use perfectly good land
00:30and use it for housing which is not the right way. I don't know if I have like a
00:35huge opinion on it, I think there's a lot of houses that are very unfairly priced
00:41so it's quite hard to get housing sometimes in the area so I don't know if
00:46there's necessarily a lack of housing or if it's just kind of not priced fairly
00:51for kind of the area because obviously Durham is quite high, like high in terms
00:55of rent and stuff but I think that's sometimes a little bit unfair on people
00:58who are from Durham.