Plans For 61 New Council Homes In Carmarthenshire

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-37759805

Wales taking the lead....look and learn England !

[-Talbot-]

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/thousands-of-new-homes-earmarked-for-leeds-1-8152819

[EDDIE51]

We need to build 200,000 new homes a year just to stay where we are with housing demand!

[-Talbot-]

http://www.leeds.gov.uk/residents/Pages/Buildingcouncilhomes.aspx

[mikey4444]

Good news Talbot, but are they going to be Council Houses, because that is what is going to be built in Carmarthenshire ! From my link above ::::

"Carmarthenshire became the first council in Wales to build new council homes since the 1980s when it developed 12 new homes in 2014.

It also became the first council to suspend its Right to Buy policy in order to protect its stock"

[Gromit]

Nah,
This is happening all over the country...


// Since 2010, total of 800 new homes have been built which means that West Lothian Council has built more houses than any other local authority in Scotland during the period 2012-2015. //

// Over the next few years we are going to build more than a thousand new council homes in Leeds. All our new homes are energy efficient and built to a high standard, designed to meet the needs of people in the 21st century. //

// We are investing £17 million to provide new homes for Oxford. The 113 affordable homes for rent are across five sites in the city. //

[Togo]

Are these dwellings earmarked for the "local" people or designated as housing for immigrants Mikey?

[anneasquith]

Immigrants, you mean English ? :-)

[vulcan42]

This is a definite maybe...

[Togo]

May well be English anne, but that does not determine them as immigrants.......asylum seekers maybe, fleeing the devastation inflicted on them by the luvvies. The Welsh cant understand how come so many people voted UKIP and Brexit. When we reach accord we will send them all up ta "Bonnie Scotland" be some wailing then and it won't be the pipes.

[mikey4444]

Togo....I have no idea, but its kind of irrelevant to the issue.

We have quite a few Polish and other Eastern Europeans in the area, and all but a few of them working in a local "meat packing" factory. I know because I have interviewed quite a few of them over the last 5-6 years.

My nieces husband also works there, as a junior manager, and he says that the owners are only too glad to have these hard-working people there. Without them,, the place would have had closed and re-located years ago.

What is interesting about this Carmarthenshire initiative is this bit ::::

"It also became the first council to suspend its Right to Buy policy in order to protect its stock"

I am not sure if this is being done elsewhere in Britain, but I hope it is.

[douglas9401]

"I am not sure if this is being done elsewhere in Britain, but I hope it is."

Happy to help.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-28007965

[mikey4444]

Thanks Dougie...most illuminating !

[youngmafbog]

Mickey, I have told you many times (and posted links), the Council here ( A Tory council) have been building homes for tenants for some time.

Wales (labour) is dragging behind!

[youngmafbog]

Late or not still good news though Mickey.

[mikey4444]

YMB....this seems to be one of those rare times when we both agree...we should really do it more often !