A Housing Crisis? We have only ourselves to blame!
The decision to put 97 Houses/Flats near the Holdingham Roundabout ended a sorry saga of planning in the Sleaford area. Unfortunately it may not be the last! Such decisions increasingly seem to be taken by unelected bodies from outside the area. The problem is nationwide and on a much bigger scale.
The Private Eye magazine parodies the Government in its attempt to concrete the Country with affordable housing. Using the rural parts of the West Midlands as an example it comments in respect of massive housing projects of 365,0000 homes are deemed that were deemed "not enough":
Throughout England, responsibility for drawing up and managing housing targets will be handed to the regional development agencies, the Quangos set up to encourage business growth.
This is part of the Governments drive to remove local democracy from the planning system - or, as ministers would have it – make planning more responsible to economic factors.
What looms for the West Midlands shows what eventually will be in store for every region. Now - with the cynical ECO-Towns programme, the review of the Green belt, and the pursuit of housing numbers at any cost – it appears to be preparing for a wave of Noddy boxes that would have shamed the Thatcher Government.
Wake up England!
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