CUTS ARE BECOMING THE NORM

`Homeless 

get no help from planners`

Cuts to affordable home numbers are becoming the norm, says a Cumbria local newspaper correspondent, highlighting the big reduction in the construction of these homes by a leading county building company, Story Homes.

Contributors to the letters column of the Penrith-based Cumberland and Westmorland Herald newspaper are continuing to draw attention to the shortage of these homes and the policy of local builders to make reductions to plans for more  of the homes.

In this week`s issue of the newspaper, Maggie Clowes of Appleby attacks Eden District Council`s planning committee for giving the go ahead for these reductions.

She writes:“The committee seemed more concerned to protect developers` profiles than to ensure sufficient affordable housing for its own taxpayers.

“Perhaps the scrutiny committee should consider how honest it is to pay lip service to policy on affordable housing which in practice is regularly ignored.”

“It would be interesting to know just how many developments have actually been built with the prescibed 30 percent affordable housing”

 

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