| Topic: | Re:Reply | |
| Posted by: | Simon Hayes | |
| Date/Time: | 24/06/26 20:04:00 |
| They could have enforced the affordable housing element of all developments instead of rolling over and reducing the amounts to negligible levels. That might have been a start. As has been said elsewhere it’s affordability rather than lack of housing that’s the problem. The Broadway Living plan only sounded great to those instigating it and running it. The two major developments earmarked to happen under it were Gurnell and Perceval House. Both never got past planning in the end, at least as the council envisaged them. Gordon is correct that viewing councils as entrepreneurs is a poor call. They are profligate with public money at the best of times. Ealing compounded its mistakes by failing to keep the statutory monitoring reports for years, with no explanation, so keeping track of what was really being built and by whom. Simply saying they couldn’t build council houses because tenants would just by them isn’t a reason not to build them. A lot of tenants don’t want the headaches of home ownership, preferring secure long term tenancies at reasonable rents. |