10:00am Friday 2nd July 2010
By Reader's letter
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.
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