Action For Warm Homes
I’ve been approached by Action for Warm Homes. They are great Manifesto for Warmth which I fully endorse and support. Insulating our homes, public buildings and businesses must be a strategic priority....
View ArticleLib Dem Manifesto
Earlier this week the Lib Dems launched our manifest for the general election. I think it’s great – do you?
View ArticleAylesbury Estate
In April the main Planning committee agreed to the demolition of the 2758 homes that form the Aylesbury estate. The vast majority being social rented council homes, all 2,249 of them + 509 leasehold...
View ArticleFlawed Viability Statements
Southwark Council after resisting years of campaigning from the people at 35% and Lib Dem colleague Cllr Adele Morris have agreed a new policy of publishing viability reports about whether a developer...
View ArticleSnail’s Pace Housing
Southwark Council needs to do much more to tackle the scandal of thousands of homes left empty in Southwark. We face a local housing crisis with housing need rising all the time with the local...
View ArticleNever Never Land Housing
Southwark Council was created in 1965 from smaller morel local council authorities. It embarked on a hugely ambitious council housing programme. It built massive estates such as the Heygate and...
View ArticleBizarre Housing Policies
I was shocked to receive the news via the 35% campaigning group that Southwark is one of the worst three boroughs in London for social rented housing delivery. Only 3% of the total homes delivered in...
View ArticleSt.Ives Inspiration
The residents of St.Ives have voted via a new Neighbourhood Plan require that all new build homes must be occupied as principal residents – not holiday or second homes. In Southwark many new homes are...
View ArticleMost New Southwark Homes Sold Overseas
Southwark Lib Dems have criticised Labour Southwark for taking no action about the selling of new Southwark homes to overseas owners. A damning ‘Transparency International’ report revealed that 100% of...
View ArticleSouthwark Crappy Windows
Southwark Council has a Housing Asset Management Strategy that claims Page 11: “We will maintain decency to the warm, dry and safe standard WDS principles equates to the Government’s Decent Homes...
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