Object
New Local Plan: Spatial Options Document 2021
Representation ID: 37843
Received: 11/08/2021
Respondent: Mr David Flack
Strategic option 2 fails to address the problem of the aging population within the district. This is in large part due to the failure to provide adequate low rent social housing to enable young people to remain in the District and to develop stable family units. The failure of Housing associations to meet this need is well documented nationally & locally the largest Housing association Sanctuary has a poor record of maintaining properties and honouring contractual promises made when the Councils housing stock transferred. The strategy should provide Council housing (preferably directly managed) with genuinely affordable rents and secure tenancies.
Strategic option 2 fails to address the problem of the aging population within the district. This is in large part due to the failure to provide adequate low rent social housing to enable young people to remain in the District and to develop stable family units. The failure of Housing associations to meet this need is well documented nationally & locally the largest Housing association Sanctuary has a poor record of maintaining properties and honouring contractual promises made when the Councils housing stock transferred. The strategy should provide Council housing (preferably directly managed) with genuinely affordable rents and secure tenancies.