Sentences with phrase «council house building»

Housing associations have added to the supply of affordable housing but not at the volumes of council house building programmes in the 1960s and 1970s.

As a result, Labour councils, for example, waste valuable time preparing large scale council house building plans.

New Labour continued the process, cutting the number of Council houses built to a mere 200 - 300 a year in the last decade, despite the number of households on the local authority waiting lists topping 1.8 million.

In the early 1960s, the last council housing built in the village was erected in Northgate and Priorscroft in the north and also at Manse road in the south of the village.

Delegates also voted to campaign to make all banks, whether owned by the taxpayer or not, to increase their lending to businesses and to councils to fund a massive council house building programme.

On the flip side, rail nationalisation (and other utilities) was hugely popular along with other left wing policies such as university grants, large scale council house building etc etc..

Labour in Wales were proud to state Council house building program was going ahead my council is building 50 new homes this year, down comes Miliband and ordered Labour to change it to affordable homes to buy or red but to buy would be better.

Will this measure lead to a renaissance in council house building on the scale that is needed to assist in reaching the 300,000 new homes target?»

Policy options raised by Findlay included increasing the minimum wage, reintroduction of council house building, reduction in the use of the private sector in NHS Scotland, and allowing councils to set their own taxes to help reverse job losses within local government.

Welcoming the promise to make it easier for councils to build council homes, Mr. Dromey added, «Council house building has collapsed from three hundred thousand to three hundred a year in a generation.

So, when we have the debate about the Union influence within the Labour Party, let's remember that when Unions last played a real and major role in society on a national level, our country created the NHS, committed to full employment and a council house building programme.

Council house building, my council has applied and been given five council houses, the waiting list in my area is 3,800.

But already Wales have fallen in line with Miliband tinkering by dropping the council house building for affordable homes.