Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express – Saturday 23 February 1924
Colliery Enterprise
The Conisborough Housing Association is a public utility society formed by the Denaby and Cadeby Collieries Ltd. for the specific purpose of housing the increased population expected to be attracted by colliery developments. It is likely that in the next five years there will be employed 2000 more workmen at these collieries, which implies a new population of 5,000 or 6,000.
The Housing Association is preparing to build 500 houses, which will meet no more than an instalment of the anticipated need, and, of course, will do nothing to relieve existing overcrowding, which is presumed to be the concern of the Urban Council.
The Housing Association naturally seeks to take advantage, in common with all other persons building cottages of this type, of the Government and local subsidies, which in our opinion will be well bestowed on a scheme of this sort. The value to the locality of the population which the Housing Association will provide for, cannot be estimated, but its earnings and spendings will be very great.
We rather deprecate, therefore, the tendency of a section of the Conisborough ratepayers to look dubiously and suspiciously at the enterprise. It seems obviously to their interests to encourage it and hurry it on.