The estate in Kettering is one of 225 areas said to need help to stop growing inequality.
"The parks are definitely lacking a little bit. There's a lot of broken glass," she says.
The ward included Avondale and The Grange estates, which straddle a busy road heading towards the town centre."I think when you look at how much funding has gone into the town centre lately, definitely," Leah says. It is also where you find Grange Place, home to a newsagent, laundrette, Mexican restaurant and The Grange Resource Centre.Every Tuesday and Thursday morning, the Resource Centre hosts a community cafe where cooked breakfasts are £4 or pay-what-you-can. There's also free supermarket surplus food and a rail of donated clothes."Well, personally, I don't go out after four o'clock.
The Grange, she says, is "like a small village - some of the people are lovely and some of the people aren't, but mostly they're lovely good people"."There's no bus services and there's no dentists around. There's nothing. A group of North Northamptonshire councillors have turned their focus on the authority's Left Behind neighbourhoods - Avondale Grange and two others in Corby and Wellingborough.
"I don't think they've been left behind by the wonderful organisations that are supporting children and families in those areas, but they have been left behind by the state and they have been left behind by social infrastructure." "When taken alongside the wider ambitions of the council, set out in its corporate plan, to improve the overall offer for employment, housing, education and health across North Northamptonshire, I believe that we have the opportunity to tackle the deep-rooted issues that lead to left behind neighbourhoods," he said.
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