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Coun. Derek Kennedy at Fairfield, the former police houses in Hexham. POLICE and council chiefs are set to meet at an abandoned housing estate in Hexham early in the new year. But the councillor who called for action over Fairfield, which stands derelict behind the town s police station, has revealed he hasn t been invited. Coun. Derek Kennedy, who represents Hexham West on Northumberland County Council, wanted to meet Northumbria s police and crime commissioner Kim McGuinness at the site in January. He wanted to demonstrate first hand his concerns over the decaying state of the 1970s homes, built originally for police officers and their families, and the need to bring them back into use as social housing.
Coun. Derek Kennedy at Fairfield, the former police houses in Hexham. A COUNCILLOR has demanded action to bring derelict former police homes back into use as social housing. Located behind the town’s police station, Fairfield was built around 50 years ago, originally to house serving police officers and their families. The dozen properties were later let out as social housing, but in 2015, tenants were asked to leave over a three-year period. It was part of a plan by Vera Baird, the then Northumbria police and crime commissioner, to sell the homes to release more funds for the police, and by 2017, most of the tenants had gone.