Need for referendum will flatten right to build idea
Need for referendum will flatten right to build idea
0 Comments | Daily Post; Liverpool (UK), Jul 28, 2010 | by Rob Merrick
MORE and more, I find myself looking at the headline on top of a government announcement – before realising that exactly the opposite is the truth.
For example, the schools’ revolution – more academies and ‘free schools’ – masks an extraordinary accumulation of power in Whitehall, despite ministers’ claims to be handing it to parents.
Similarly, the government insists it is giving Merseyside more muscle and money to revive its economy – but, in truth, the cash is drying up and power is heading back to London.
However, nowhere is this Alice-in-Wonderland world more apparent than in housing, where the claim that it will soon become easier to build desperately-needed affordable homes is truly mindboggling. Last week, a “Right to Build” was promised, with the aim of providing small numbers of cheaper homes where sky-high prices are driving locals away. We were told that residents would form housing trusts and bypass planning permission, ensuring they would not be “thwarted by bureaucracy”
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