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Shame over future housing shortages

10:00am Friday 2nd July 2010 in


YORK residents are living longer and remaining in their own homes for longer into old age.

So York needs more homes for present and future workers.

Coun Steve Galloway has long seen York Central, and more latterly the British Sugar site, as his solution for delivering much-needed housing in the city.

He said in 2004 that by 2011 York Central would provide more than 2,500 homes, yet no planning application has yet been submitted.

Yorkshire Forward has been crucial in progressing plans for this site, so it is devastating for York that it is to be abolished by the coalition Government. I hope Coun Galloway is ashamed of his party’s early performance in Government and tells Nick Clegg so.

Not only is York losing homes, but also jobs in construction that the development of York Central would create, as well as the positive knock-on effects to the city.

York’s chronic housing shortage will be the result of “too many eggs in one basket” by this administration.

The Government’s scrapping of regional housing targets further abandons our obligation to provide any housing for future generations of York people, be it affordable or otherwise.

Coun Tracey Simpson-Laing, Labour Spokesperson for Adults, Health and Housing, Salisbury Road, York.

Comments(7)

mickrick says...
10:41am Fri 2 Jul 10

Councilor surely even you have twigged by now that if you steal 50% of a builders houses, you aint gonna get no houses.What right minded builder is going to go along with your theiving, the blame for this is yours and yours alone. Not councilor galloway.....I could go on and on and lets not forget the sly and devious way you counted homeless beds to justify your arguments on affordable housing. Wake up to reality, your a failure and your clinging onto your delusions using false statistics......who was it said "there are lies, **** lies, and statistics.

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Taken for a Mug says...
11:32am Fri 2 Jul 10

Have we already forgotten how we got to this situation?

I do hope Tracy receives treatment for her bout of amnesia.

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petethefeet says...
12:50pm Fri 2 Jul 10

I hope both Tracey and Mr Alexander read these blogs. If so, they will realise that they ain't getting a halfpenny of support. It's took a long time, but the electorate are beginning to realise what a bunch of thieves the last administration were.

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George Appleby says...
10:15am Sat 3 Jul 10

The two party system where Labour and Tories have thrived on the constant certainty of taking over from each other when the other has run the country into deeper depths of disunity and poverty is what it is all about.

The Lib Dems have just perpetuated this and pushed Single Transferable Votes further into the future.

There is nothing to choose between them as long as this remains unchanged.

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Cold_as_Christmas says...
1:15am Sun 4 Jul 10

It was all very well to talk about building houses but what about the infrastructure that goes with it such as more school places, Dr's and of course new roads to help with the increased gridlock.
If there were an award for Councillors creating problems & wasting money York would win hands down.

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mickrick says...
9:52am Sun 4 Jul 10

well said cold as christmas!.but remember more houses means lots more council tax revenue for our esteem leaders to squander and waste on new premises Knocking good ones, down planting trees? closing roads for bicycles, converting historic buildings that are unsuitable and will never be fit for purpose. That one alone will be a black hole .So keep on paying your council tax .Our esteem leaders need every penny.

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Duck in the hedge says...
5:35pm Sun 4 Jul 10

Judging by the above blogs, Coun Simpson-Laing's efforts to blame Coun Galloway and the Lib-dems for York's housing mess has failed............ as spectacularly as the real cause......... Labour's ill-conceived, flawed and catastrophic 50% affordable housing policy !!!! York residents clearly have long memories and can't be fooled by the councillor's poor attempt at spinning.

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