Letter calling for revew of House Crusher Programme in light of shortafge of affordable family homes recignised by Minister :

Cllr Steve Radford
Leader of The Liberal Party Group
41 Sutton Street
Tuebrook
Liverpool
L13 7EG
0151 259 5935

Letter for Publication

Dear Editor

We are most grateful for the report in The Observer last sunday which stated that:


"The government is to demand a return to the 'traditional, family terraced home' after fears that a drought in house- building is gumming up the market and stopping people from moving.
Ministers believe a chronic shortage of three-bedroom properties suitable for families is leading to soaring prices and forcing people with children to stay on reluctantly in places they have outgrown. The lack of families moving also means that younger people trying to buy their first home are also finding it harder to enter the housing market.

Now councils which fail to ensure sufficient priority for family-friendly accommodation will have their plans rejected by the Department for Communities and Local Government.

The change will be announced on Tuesday by the Housing Minister, Yvette Cooper"

So what is happening, here in the north west and north ?

We see tax payers money be ploughed into Pathfinder schemes ,where exactly that sort of family and starter home terraced property is being eradicated ,at an obscene public expense ,to be replaced by an excessive supply of flats.

Why ?, because the privileged building companies can generate greater profit by flats and apartments than family homes

The demolition "Pathfinder - House Crusher" programme will alone add another 6000 families onto the Liverpool City waiting lists in the next three years as well as dramatically reducing the current  supply of affordable homes

Government should pull the plug on the northern Pathfinder projects and we should not be forced to repeat the mistakes that the South has finally woken up to

Cllr Steve Radford
Leader Liberal Party Group - Liverpool