Sentences with phrase «of council housing»

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.

Next year's reform of council housing finance means that local authorities could start building again, though more work is needed to get the most from this.

The building of council housing from the late 1920s until the late 1960s established the modern village with 85 % of residents renting from the local authority.

The decline in new house building is long term and has been noticeable since the almost complete collapse in the construction of council housing since the 1980s.

It is a young seat of council housing, the unemployed poor, and single parent families.

The Council's claim derived from the «Homes for Votes» scandal in the 1980s and the subsequent surcharging of Dame Shirley and others for losses caused by their wilful misconduct in the sale of the council houses in certain wards (finally assessed by the Court at # 26 million).

Last year a new street of council houses in the borough was named Martin Kinggett Gardens after Rifleman Kinggett, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2010.

A large percentage of council housing stock has been sold under the right to buy scheme, particularly in high value areas like Kensington and Chelsea, leaving the council short on housing stock with long waiting lists for council housing.

And Graham Brady has declared that the challenge for his colleagues is «to come up with solutions that are as appealing, and encapsulate our principles as perfectly, as the sale of council houses back in the 1980s».

In Britain, Labour and Conservative governments built millions of council houses for all who needed them.

Wheatley served as housing minister in the first Labour government and introduced landmark legislation that expanded the provision of council housing and drove up living standards among the poor.

So Labour will, as Teresa Pearce said, build over a million new homes at least half of them council houses and we will control private rents, so we can give every British family that basic human right - a decent home.

Ending security of council house tenure?

The Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Mr. Iain Wright): The current review of council housing finance is a joint review between my Department and the Treasury.

«When the post-war Labour government built hundreds of thousands of council houses in a single term in office, they transformed millions of people's lives.

Private renting fell steadily in the UK during most of the 20th century — in inverse proportion to the rise of council housing — and settled at around eight per cent.

Communities up and down this country have spent 25 years building housing association homes, picking up the pieces of Mrs Thatcher's destruction of council housing, and we will not allow David Cameron to destroy that work too...

«The constituency was, for many years up until Thatcher's promise of council house sales, a marginal Tory - Labour constituency,» he explains.

He spoke of lifting the borrowing cap that constrains local authorities and prevents them from building a new generation of council housing.

The erosion of the council housing stock is expected to be particularly stark in outer - London, where the boroughs currently forecast that two homes will be sold for every new home that is completed.

Complaints of Council houses left empty and boarded up are corroborated by figures from the Empty Homes Agency which state that there are 1,072 empty Council homes in Liverpool.

With the selling off of council houses making it even more difficult for families to find suitable accommodation, Mr Draper insisted that the Prime Minister should give up his residence at the publicly owned Chequers — one of at least three the Prime Minister enjoys, and have it converted into affordable flats for ordinary families.

The old Halton ward did not include any areas of council housing, and was consistently one of the least deprived wards in Leeds.

But the vast majority, such as Shore's housing blueprint - rejected by the Tories in favour of council house sales - would never be heard of again.

The Labour vote in Matlock is traditional WWC, the remnants of the old mill town vote, plus a bit of council housing.

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.

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.

«The work entailed not simply drawing up [plans and] schedules to reduce the carbon footprint of council housing but... [also] exploring new ways that North Tyneside Council could interact with private contractors who bid for the work.

His detailed renditions of council houses and — to quote a title — Landscape with Dog Shit Bin may not be socially engaging per se, but they are certainly politically aware.

He fraudulently claims to be a Nobel laureate; he pretends to sit in the House of Lords (he doesn't, having failed to secure a single vote in 2007); he refrains, at best, from correcting propagandists like Glenn Beck when they call him a «former scientific advisor» to Margaret Thatcher (in fact, he advised her on the transfer of council houses into private ownership).

Lead counsel for 11,000 + Claimants in negligence claim against solicitors acting for purchasers of council houses.

The employee was a street scene operative who, in the course of handling a bin bag full of rubbish while removing rubbish and debris left by tenants of council houses, suffered a serious cut to his finger.

In the Lords (2.30 pm) question time ranges across the right of return of Palestinian refugees, Brexit negotiations and increasing the supply of council housing stock.

This week, Tory 1922 chairman Graham Brady declared that the challenge for his colleagues was «to come up with solutions that are as appealing, and encapsulate our principles as perfectly, as the sale of council houses back in the 1980s».

The borough — Tower Hamlets — has a severe shortage of council housing, with 22,500 people on waiting lists for accommodation and thousands more families living in cramped, overcrowded conditions.

In Kensington and Chelsea it found that 97 % of the council housing stock could be sold when it becomes vacant, in Cambridge nearly half,, and nearly a fifth of that in York.

At the same time, it reduced the proportion of Capital Receipts from sales of council housing that local authorities were required to retain, releasing # 3 billion.

So what does labour stand for well the love of Thatcher was evident, the hate of anyone not working was evident, the hate of socialism was easy to see, the non building of council housing, but the love of anything which made money for the banks was OK.

In September 2017, Theresa May announced Conservative party support for the «rebirth» of council housing.

The constituency covers a largely residential area immediately north of Derby city centre, including some of the city's most affluent suburbs, as well as some of its council housing, though much of this is former council housing in private ownership.

We know that the breaking of the unions, the dismantling of the welfare state and the sale of council houses that Margaret Thatcher pioneered made us more individualistic.