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"If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself."
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"The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo."
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Personal Development

"In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us."
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Personal Development

"If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself."
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"Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done."
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"We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot."
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"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."
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"I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly."
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"The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe."
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"Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites."
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"I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are."
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"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."
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"In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that."
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"In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy."
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