The Tees Valley Housing Market Renewal project has broken away from the campaign to convince the government to set up more housing market renewal pathfinders.
The project has been working with the shadow pathfinder group coordinated by the National Housing Federation North to campaign for more market renewal pathfinders to be set up.

Tees Valley director Jim Johnsone said: "We will pursue our own campaign. We're better organised and further down the line than any of the other shadow pathfinder areas."

He added: "It's patently obvious we've got more in common with the existing pathfinders than any of the other shadow areas – and we should have been in the first time round."

He said Tees Valley – which includes Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Cleveland – would still work with the group, but combine this with independent campaigning.

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Housing Today