An edition of the Tyne Tees Television current affairs programme ‘Briefing’ begins with an in-studio discussion on the 1983 United Kingdon Budget which took place the day after the programme was transmitted and what the region can expect from it. In the second part of the programme a filmed report on new ways in which local councils are creating enough new homes to go around while also being able to improve existing housing estates. Following the film presenter Ian Breach speaks with Housing...

An edition of the Tyne Tees Television current affairs programme ‘Briefing’ begins with an in-studio discussion on the 1983 United Kingdon Budget which took place the day after the programme was transmitted and what the region can expect from it. In the second part of the programme a filmed report on new ways in which local councils are creating enough new homes to go around while also being able to improve existing housing estates. Following the film presenter Ian Breach speaks with Housing Minister John Stanley MP about many of the issues raised. Title Tyne Tees Briefing The first part of this week’s edition of Briefing begins with presenter Ian Breach conducting an in-studio discussion on the following days budget asking what the region can expect from Chancellor of the Exchequer Geoffrey Howe in what is believed to be an election year. In the studio to discuss the budget is Harry Cowans Labour MP for Newcastle Central, John Horam Social Democratic Party (SDP) MP for Gateshead West and Dr Keith Hampson Conservative MP for Ripon. Title: End of Part One Part Two A filmed report on council housing progress begins with a large residential tower block dominates the skyline near to rows of traditional terraced housing. The film changes to building site of new homes at Peterlee and broken windows in a block of flats on the Bessemer Park estate in Sedgefield which after only ten years is scheduled for demolition. Residents walk around the North Kenton estate in Newcastle and speak with the Tyne Tees reporter about the issue of damp which affects many of the houses, flats and marionettes on the estate. Many ask for central heating which would fix this problem, while other complain about the costs in electricity to heat rooms and reduce the issue. A mother is critical of Newcastle City Council who have told her they don’t have the funds currently to resolve her issues, she is fearful of her son’s health which is being affected. Mary Simons of the North Kenton Residents Group canvases the local area, she is interviewed about Newcastle City Council who initially offering the estate central heating, but then took that offer away when the money was no longer available. As she talks about the challenges of getting people more involved in the resident’s group, she and a colleague continue to post leaflets through people’s letterboxes. A dog barks from a balcony of a North Kenton maisonette, the animal purchased for security reasons as the crime rate on the area rose. General views of a vandalised flat changes to a different block of flat where money has been spent on building walls and planting trees. An entry-phone system has also been installed to improve security. Children run past a block of maisonettes, the most unpopular form of housing on the estate. At the back workmen building private stairwells where residents, mainly mothers with young children, could access their flats without having to use the communal stairwell which is shown to be vandalised. Another block of maisonettes which have been converted to three-storey townhouses, nearby more maisonettes being converted. A piece of now grassed over open ground on which once stood a block of maisonettes now demolished. A street of three-bedroomed family homes, inside one of the houses an ‘intensive management project’ with a line of residents speaking with one of three project workers about the issues they are having with their homes. In an officer another resident speaks with a second project worker. Interview with Bill Drury Project Leader at North Kenton about the project and what if offers residences followed by Mary Simons who is positive about what is being done, but with reservations. A block of boarded up maisonettes on Kirkwood Drive in North Kenton changes to another block awaiting conversion and a drying room has been transformed into a playroom where a small boy comes down a slide. On the stairs outside another small boy carefully comes down the concrete stairs. In the distance the Byker Wall development, in the foreground a building site for a development of private starter-homes. Joanne Potter who currently lives in one of the maisonettes in the Byker Wall talks how and why she and her husband have bought one of these new homes. As she talks about getting a mortgage and the costs she will be paying she wonders around the building site looking over one of the houses under construction. At Boldon near Sunderland Mr and Mrs Bernard Crosby stand in the doorway of the council house talking about why they decided to buy their property. In Middlesbrough a new housing development at Colby Newham made up of mixed sized properties for rent and to buy. A large sign on the corner of a street made up of recently completed houses reads ‘Houses and Bungalows For Sale by Persimmons Homes’ changing to more house on the estate that have been built to the designs of their owners. Interview with Councillor Bob Brady, Chairman of Middlesbrough's Housing Committee about the ethos behind this development that would allow everyone to live together from council and private tenant to those who own their own homes. He goes onto talk about another the success of different development in an area at Hollowfield where those renting live side-by-side with owner-occupiers, a unique idea he isn’t aware of happening anywhere else in the county. A parade of shops in the Colby Newham development and children playing at the local primary school changes to a plot of wasteland where a shopping and leisure development is hoped to be built. A series of twenty-nine homes which form part of a local co-operative built by the North Housing Association changes to an interview with Mr and Mrs Gilmore who are founder members of the co-operative who talk about their involvement in the design of their own home. In Newcastle a meeting of a new co-operative with potential new homeowners talking design decisions with architect Vernon Gracey. An interview with Mr Gracey about the benefits of being part of a co-operative. Amongst this group are Harry and Shirley Ewing who talk about the design decision they have in consultation with Vernon to add an extra bedroom to their new home. Returning to Middlesbrough Mr and Mrs Gilmore talks about the benefits to being their own landlord where everyone helps each other out. Back in the studio Ian Breach speaks with Housing Minister John Stanley MP in Westminster about many of the issues raised in the filmed report. The programme ends with Ian Breach providing details relating to next weeks edition on the Darlington by-election. A list of candidates of provided. Credits: Presenter Ian Breach Film Camera Fred Crone Film Sound Ed Gray Film Editor Garry Pierpoint Research Andrew Soloman Political Editor John Sleight Directors Terry Steel, Paul Dickin Producer Bob Farnworth End Title: Tyne Tees Colour. © Tyne Tees Television Ltd. MCMXXXIII