Decision 2 April - Proposed Development - The Sidings, Railway Rise, SE22

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

22 hours ago, ED_moots said:

The council could and should be bolder, demand twice the social and affordable housing in these schemes...

The private sector is not going to build a significant amount of social housing. Everyone is very keen for *everyone else* to subsidise construction of social housing. I take it none of the objectors to this scheme was suggesting putting up council tax so Southwark could build more social housing...?

Social housing isn't going to appear in serious numbers if the state doesn't borrow money and build it.

Edited Friday at 21:56 by Dogkennelhillbilly

[Sally Eva]

On 02/04/2025 at 13:45, Earl Aelfheah said:

This wouldn't surprise me. I never understand how approval to drop affordable housing commitments is granted post planning permission. Shouldn't be possible, but often seems to happen.

I think that the value of one unit of social housing in a luxury block is so great that taking the money and building real social housing elsewhere with it, can be a preferable option.

[first mate]

Meantime,  pushing this development through allows Cllr McAsh and the Council the opportunity to spin 'positive' numbers and data, to show they are meeting the council and Labour's new housing targets. 

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

Yes - and this is a good thing because meeting housing targets is a good thing. If Labour or any other party had managed to do it consistently over the last decade perhaps we wouldn't be in a housing crisis.

I'm not sure if "don't build more housing because it's only rich foreigners that will end up living there" is official Lib Dem policy or not.