Personally speaking, I can't find much sympathy in Priestley's bluntness; he seems unable to separate the people from the social conditions that others, notably George Orwell, an Old Etonian no less, described without demeaning those whose lives and opportunities were constricted by them.
Recently I and another fan of social renewal and life long Gateshead resident spoke at length to a member of the Gateshead Council's Planning Department about plans for the sorry looking Gateshead High Street. In brief, plans to regenerate the centre of Gateshead are imaginative and over due. As soon as the Corona Virus pandemic is history, I shall be posting more on this chance to rescue something from the road building mania of the Sixties that has left such a problematic legacy.
'Plans to transform a key site near Gateshead town centre through a £90 million development plan have been unveiled by Gateshead Council.'
Full report here (off site link)
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