Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes

🎙️ Avenues Voices

Listen to residents reflect on the Avenues’ rich heritage, housing challenges and hopes for the future.

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Avenues voices

In this SoundCloud series, local residents reflect on the Avenues’ rich heritage, the challenges posed by their historic homes, and the barriers they’ve faced in seeking improvements. Their stories highlight the experience of coming together through the Healthy Homes Forum and share their hopes and expectations for the future.

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History and heritage

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Steeped in history

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Uniform with little quirks

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Fog in the old year

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Custodian of my home

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Very Dickensian

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Privileged to be a tenant

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Its a special place

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · I live in a house that's 150 years old

Change

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Its changed here

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Clean Air Act

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Fond memories of growing up here

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Resistance to biscuit box development

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · At one point there was an outdoor toilet

Challenges

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Always hot or always cold

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Condensation and mould

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Over time the house has deteriorated

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Windows are the biggest problem

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Assumed solar wasn't allowed

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Cost and size

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Persistent fight to get basic work done

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Nobody would listen

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Getting bounced around

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Poor service

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Shoved from pillar to post

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Diminished because I’m a woman

Healthy Homes Forum & the future

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Really uplifting

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · People swapped ideas

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Worry it is just a guide

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Brilliant stories

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Resource to be tapped into

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Healthy Homes Hub

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Building trust and confidence

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Real examples and realistic costs

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Queens Park Avenues Healthy Homes · Improving your living standards

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🛠️ Further resources and support

Delve deeper and access practical support.

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Understand your home and explore options for improvements.

➡️ You Said, We Did & What's Next

Find out how ideas for change are being taken forward.

🗫 Healthy Homes Forum

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