Why would anyone believe Tory home-building promises when they’ve failed so badly?
Construction site: enjoy the photograph because you won’t be seeing many of these under Tory rule!
More than 1.1 million houses for which planning permission was granted since the Tories retook power in 2010 have not been built.
They just can’t get developers to put these houses up, despite promise after promise that they would.
The Local Government Association says only by building more council homes can the housing crisis be tackled and the government’s housebuilding target be met.
It is calling for councils to be given the powers to kickstart a social housebuilding programme of 100,000 homes a year.
Polling by the association has found that 80 per cent of MPs and 88 per cent of peers think councils should have more financial freedoms and powers to build new homes.
Here in Wales, one of the Tory local election promises was to build 100,000 houses over the next decade, including 40,000 social homes – and somebody must have believed them because they won 16 seats – five more than last time.
But if they haven’t built a million homes in the last 11 years across the whole of the UK, why should we believe they’ll build 100,000, just in Wales, in the next 10?
We shouldn’t.
It’s just another Tory con. It’s past time we stopped believing them.
Source: Over 1m homes in England with planning permission not built | Housing | The Guardian
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