Real Northumberland Murky: Northumberland Tories Want ‘Royston Vasey’ Recreated Everywhere?

Wednesday, 11 December 2024

Northumberland Tories Want ‘Royston Vasey’ Recreated Everywhere?

Fear of outsiders bringing the rest of the North-East’s voting habits into the County is forcing Northumberland Conservatives into slashing their housing development numbers as they consider housing need secondary to housing greed.

Northumberland has within its bounds 166 Civil Parishes, made up of 15 towns and 279 villages.

The Roysten Vaseyites who hold all the seats on Northumberland County Council’s one party secret cabinet have plucked the figure of 549 new homes to be built on its almost empty 5,016 sq kilometres.

With the H&CA telling us Northumberland has 17,272 homes currently below the decent homes standard, many of which should be demolished, The tories desired figure is the simple catalyst into developing hundreds of Royston Vasey’s to keep Northumberland empty, dilapidated yet picturesque in a Dickensian slum manner.

The current figures from Northumberland’s cabinet will leave Northumberland as a shrinking council in future and even future higher figures will not guarantee that your families children will be able to reside within the County they grew up in.

Their plans are simple indeed, they wish to only develop just over 1.86 of a house in every village and town across the County instead of the thousands needed to replace BSKYB and summer lets which are growing almost as rapidly as food banks and community pantry's, another set of needs the Conservatives are ignoring. These development plans are estimated to kill the Council and the County in a very short time indeed.

With the same secret Cabinet denying the development of any Council housing over the last seven and a half years the homelessness and overcrowding situation across Northumberland is becoming intolerable. With Sofa-Surfing being one of the most common issues sitting within an all purpose unitary council with the responsibility of both adult care and children's services attached. Those secret cabinet members need to hold their heads in shame.

Across Northumberland the Labour Party built 400 brand new Council homes between 2013 and 2017 and yet the October 2017 figures from Shelter show 1337 homeless families registered in Northumberland. Developing one hundred Council homes per year puts the Counties secret cabinet currently 750 new homes out of kilter with need. Supply and demand does not seem to be an element of Royston Vasey’s thinking.