{"id":131821,"date":"2022-11-27T19:45:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T12:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-tories-are-tearing-themselves-apart-over-housing-but-this-is-another-crisis-of-their-own-making-john-harris\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T19:50:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T12:50:03","slug":"the-tories-are-tearing-themselves-apart-over-housing-but-this-is-another-crisis-of-their-own-making-john-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-tories-are-tearing-themselves-apart-over-housing-but-this-is-another-crisis-of-their-own-making-john-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tories are tearing themselves apart over housing \u2013 but this is another crisis of their own making | John Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nTwelve years of decaying public services mean any sensible conversation about much-needed new housing is impossibleIn the corner of Somerset where I have lived for nearly 15 years, life in late-Tory England grinds on. Our MP is David Warburton, the Conservative backbencher who was recently found to have broken the parliamentary code of conduct amid allegations of sexual harassment and drug use, which he denies. He has not been seen for eight months. Our new unitary county council faces a financial black hole of \u00a338m before it has even come into being, so cuts are being readied. The town\u2019s GP service is completely overstretched, bus services are a constant worry, trains to Bristol and Bath run at inexplicable times of the day, and the roads are regularly jammed with traffic. Use of the local food bank is at an all-time high. Meanwhile, a lot of local angst is now focused on an ever-increasing number of new housing developments: a huge local story that reflects one of the ever-growing number of internal Tory conflicts eating away at Rishi Sunak\u2019s government.The Conservatives\u2019 2019 manifesto promised that the government would trigger the building of 300,000 new homes a year, which inevitably entailed a sizeable loosening of the planning system. But proposals for drastically changing the rules and introducing new liberalised \u201cdevelopment zones\u201d were dropped after revolts led by Tory MPs, largely from the south of England. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Twelve years of decaying public services mean any sensible conversation about much-needed new housing is...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-yi9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26983,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/housing-minister-signals-change-in-government-social-housing-policy\/","url_meta":{"origin":131821,"position":0},"title":"Housing minister signals change in government social housing policy","date":"September 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Gavin Barwell pledges government will \u2018maximise number of affordable homes\u2019, but concerns and divisions remain within social housing sectorHousing and planning minister Gavin Barwell has signalled a small but perceptible change in government policy towards social housing, with an admission that affordable, sub-market renting is vital to help solve\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":66778,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/social-housing-crisis-can-no-longer-be-ignored-says-housing-chief\/","url_meta":{"origin":131821,"position":1},"title":"Social housing crisis can no longer be ignored, says housing chief","date":"September 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r David Orr says Grenfell Tower fire highlighted neglect of sector government must urgently make money available The government must act urgently to address a lack of new social housing, and the Grenfell Tower fire shows this is a crisis that can no longer be ignored, according to the head\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":83693,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-end-of-the-beginning-mt-albert-housing-development-will-help-address-aucklands-housing-crisis\/","url_meta":{"origin":131821,"position":2},"title":"'The end of the beginning': Mt Albert housing development will help address Auckland's housing crisis","date":"March 25, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Housing Minister Phil Twyford says a new housing development that will see three to four thousand new builds pop up on Unitec land will tackle Auckland's housing crisis head on. 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