I've written to my local councillors telling them that 'I will NEVER vote for any councillor who supports this awful destruction, demolition or decanting residents out of their homes. '
I've got this from Mr Dickson - I've not yet replied and could do with some urb help in knowing what to write to him
Sorry for the VERY late reply.
Cllr Dickson was, as usual, not being entirely honest.
1) What Dickson terms a "diminishing minority", is in fact a majority. We polled 76% of residents, 84% of whom voted for refurb. Even given diminishing numbers of secure tenants, the majority still holds.
2) We presented Lambeth with several options to pay for refurb. They only refer to using HRA receipts, because it's the only one that supports their own plans.
3) LHS (Lambeth Housing Standard) is £85 million down because the council squandered government "Decent Housing Standard" grant money, with very few checks & balances on pricing, poor quality control of works, & accounting that fails to show expenditure per estate, let alone per property.
4) There aren't 28,000 households on the housing waiting list that are in "priority need" (the local authority criteria for qualifying for housing). 75% of that number, are people who want to transfer/upsize/downsize.
5) "Family-sized homes". There are no 4-bed properties proposed for Cressingham. At present there are more than 40.
6) The "Lifetime" tenancy is an assured tenancy, not the gold-standard Secure Tenancy council tenants are used to.
Dickson's day job in Public Relations seem to lead him to believe that people will believe any old crap he trots out.
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