Tory Planning Changes?

 

Communities need a new stepping stone to stop intergenerational jealousy getting out of control.

The Housing Scandal:
With TV investigation programs estimating that at any one time at least 100,000 tenants of private landlords are living in substandard homes well below the regulations covering decent homes 1, that's the basic standard for social rented and Council housing in England and Wales. 

Many others living in short term residency in homes of multiple occupancy feel insecure and without hope of ever owning or even living in a home they can call their own and with average house prices outside of London costing between 12 and 14 times local average salaries people are concerned nationally about the rise in intergenerational jealousy.

The Tory Party are hanging their hats on Robert Jenrick MP’s plans to change the planning process and develop more homes for sale, 300,000 each and every year, allowing developers to build homes in the places which will give them the most profit. This change is a Government blind to cover up for the fact that they can't escape a system designed during the Thatcher era which was devised to make people aspire and an innate belief that those aspirations along with the manipulation of constituency boundaries will keep the Tories in power for ever more. They have recently lost a by election to the LibDems in their own heartlands due to the breakdown of their historical aspirational policies and they can't get their heads around where they have gone wrong.

As Tories they also believe they are the Government able to manipulate the press and avoid public scrutiny best but we must remember those manipulations are paid for by rich donors and 10% of those rich donors are Housing Developers who over the last year donated £900,000 into the Tories coffers.

The hypocrisy of the Tories on housing issues is felt very much in Northumberland as their two faced manipulations are openly thrown at an unsupecting public who believe what the press prints on their behalf, we will give some simple examples. Their disgraced Leader, Councillor Peter Jackson told the press in a speech to the North of Tyne combined authority that he wanted to develop ‘Inspiring Places’ after he had removed the Council's core strategy planning document from inspection by Government to stop an agreed inspiring development on land next to his own taking place. He also announced the development of a policy which would deliver 1000 Council homes, none are yet to appear. But he did make a speech to the wood panel industry supporting development of timber homes just before he started a wood waste storage company to handle their waste. So we can only presume that his Council, currently guided by his hand yet run in Tory puppet Councillor Sandersons name would support the ‘trailer park’ homeless units being built in Cornwall complete with huts of multiple occupancy for up to four people and not the development of cheap bed and breakfast hotels in South East Northumberland Towns to house the future homeless? Both are dismal options!

But where is this tale of those who have and those who don’t have leading?

Its leading towards the panacea for local Labour Parties, the knowledge that many people and most communities really want security of tenure and nice homes to rent owned by their Council or a Local Housing Association some as a gap stop until they can aspire to buy a new home but most which will ensure people and families from all age groups can have a quality home over their heads and the management of those homes will ensure their mental health is valued and they can dwell in communities where they are known and feel safe.

Northumberland Labour Group, hold a similar view to most local Labour Parties which is a completely different view to the Tories. Their rapid change from ideology to pragmatism has been guided by the survey they ran during the recent Local Government elections. We have been informed that over 50% of the returns cited the need to develop more Council Homes across Northumberland as the prime issue and that the new leadership of Northumberland Labour Group led by Councillor Scott Dickinson fully support the development of quality Council housing in a similar vein to the last Labour administration at County Hall who developed over 300 new high spec Council homes in places of need over their last four year tenure!

NOTES:

https://youtu.be/aO5G09nkcRQ

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/northumberland-peter-jackson-council-lugano-15457003

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-council-announces-ambitious-plans-5556819