Archive for September, 2009
Camden Labour welcomes nation-topping affordable homes boost
Posted on September 11th, 2009 by camdenlabour. Filed under Housing.
Labour Group leader Cllr. Nasim Ali welcomed the £42 million investment – the largest sum in the country:
“Every councillor knows that housing is the number one concern local people have at our surgeries. Locally Labour’s never stopped lobbying for more affordable housing, so £42 million for 300 new homes is fantastic news. It’s the largest settlement in the country and this will help families in overcrowded housing as well as first time buyers. This stands in stark contrast to the Lib Dem-led council and their policy of auctioning off council flats on the open market.”
The regional breakdown of today’s Housing Association funding allocation, with new homes by rent and low cost home ownership (LCHO) identified separately is:
|
FOR RENT |
LCHO |
TOTAL |
||||
|
GRANT (£m) |
HOMES |
GRANT (£m) |
HOMES |
GRANT (£m) |
HOMES |
|
| East Midlands |
5.832 |
121 |
0.543 |
30 |
6.375 |
151 |
| Eastern |
2.327 |
51 |
7.867 |
209 |
10.194 |
260 |
| London |
127.093 |
975 |
9.082 |
255 |
136.175 |
1,230 |
| North East |
0.383 |
12 |
0.218 |
8 |
0.601 |
20 |
| North West |
5.373 |
90 |
0.923 |
26 |
6.296 |
116 |
| South East |
32.902 |
448 |
7.920 |
261 |
40.822 |
709 |
| South West |
30.551 |
468 |
5.940 |
110 |
36.491 |
578 |
| West Midlands |
4.770 |
122 |
2.007 |
73 |
6.777 |
195 |
| Yorkshire and Humberside |
0.855 |
73 |
1.332 |
81 |
2.187 |
154 |
| Total |
210.086 |
2,360 |
35.832 |
1,053 |
245.918 |
3,413 |
ii) The breakdown of the Housing Association funding allocation by council area and number of new homes is:
| AREA |
GRANT (£m) |
HOMES |
| Adur |
2,400 |
48 |
| Allerdale |
0.371 |
5 |
| Arun |
0.523 |
10 |
| Basingstoke and Deane |
11.701 |
178 |
| Bedford |
5.980 |
153 |
| Birmingham |
0.247 |
4 |
| Blackburn |
0.243 |
4 |
| Bournemouth |
0.550 |
10 |
| Breckland |
0.116 |
1 |
| Bristol |
0.000 |
16 |
| Bromley |
4.364 |
31 |
| Calderdale |
0.000 |
15 |
| Camden |
42.665 |
284 |
| Charnwood |
0.500 |
8 |
| Chelmsford |
0.176 |
4 |
| Cherwell |
7.022 |
113 |
| Chichester |
0.731 |
10 |
| Copeland |
0.000 |
8 |
| Cornwall |
1.823 |
27 |
| Crawley |
0.520 |
8 |
| Croydon |
0.058 |
64 |
| Darlington |
0.000 |
5 |
| Dartford |
0.089 |
1 |
| Derbyshire Dales |
1.523 |
30 |
| Doncaster |
0.000 |
2 |
| Dudley |
0.127 |
2 |
| East Hampshire |
0.840 |
14 |
| East Lindsey |
0.420 |
16 |
| East Riding |
0.057 |
1 |
| Eden |
0.600 |
10 |
| Enfield |
0.222 |
5 |
| Guildford |
0.200 |
8 |
| Hackney |
2.146 |
24 |
| Harrogate |
0.250 |
5 |
| Havering |
35.818 |
357 |
| Herefordshire |
0.000 |
18 |
| Hinckley and Bosworth |
0.249 |
14 |
| Kettering |
1.716 |
22 |
| Kings Lynn and West Norfolk |
0.804 |
14 |
| Kingston upon Hull |
0.035 |
1 |
| Kirklees |
0.000 |
14 |
| Leeds |
0.605 |
11 |
| Leicester |
0.020 |
1 |
| Lewisham |
0.000 |
31 |
| Mid Devon |
0.516 |
23 |
| Mid Sussex |
2.105 |
41 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne |
0.175 |
3 |
| Newham |
7.690 |
63 |
| North East Derbyshire |
0.140 |
4 |
| North Kesteven |
0.257 |
9 |
| North Lincolnshire |
0.000 |
7 |
| North Norfolk |
0.064 |
4 |
| North Warwickshire |
0.780 |
12 |
| North WestLeicestershire |
0.634 |
11 |
| Norwich |
0.126 |
2 |
| Oldham |
0.051 |
1 |
| Plymouth |
1.318 |
22 |
| Portsmouth |
0.780 |
12 |
| Redbridge |
4.988 |
30 |
| Reigate and Banstead |
0.255 |
4 |
| Richmond upon Thames |
4.520 |
52 |
| Rossendale |
0.700 |
10 |
| Rotherham |
0.000 |
10 |
| Salford |
0.840 |
12 |
| Sandwell |
0.073 |
1 |
| Sevenoaks |
0.640 |
13 |
| Sheffield |
0.000 |
30 |
| Shropshire Council |
3.339 |
82 |
| Solihull |
0.052 |
1 |
| South Gloucestershire |
2.800 |
56 |
| South Norfolk |
0.068 |
1 |
| South Staffordshire |
0.095 |
1 |
| Southampton |
0.570 |
10 |
| Southwark |
4.408 |
36 |
| Stafford |
0.068 |
1 |
| Stevenage |
0.540 |
9 |
| Stockport |
0.369 |
6 |
| Stockton-on-Tees |
0.208 |
4 |
| Stratford upon Avon |
0.079 |
1 |
| Tandridge |
1.571 |
25 |
| Taunton Deane |
5.078 |
74 |
| Teignbridge |
0.835 |
15 |
| Test Valley |
4.239 |
52 |
| Tower Hamlets |
28.787 |
245 |
| Wakefield |
0.056 |
8 |
| Walsall |
0.052 |
1 |
| Waltham Forest |
0.021 |
1 |
| Wandsworth |
0.490 |
7 |
| Waveney |
0.076 |
1 |
| Wealden |
3.437 |
63 |
| Welwyn Hatfield |
0.130 |
2 |
| West Lindsey |
0.648 |
19 |
| Wirral |
0.920 |
14 |
| Wolverhampton |
0.049 |
1 |
| Worcester City |
0.735 |
15 |
| Worthing |
0.479 |
7 |
| Wychavon |
0.000 |
3 |
| Total |
212.556 |
2,744 |
Camden Belsize Park council flats ‘flipped’ by developers
Posted on September 1st, 2009 by camdenlabour. Filed under Housing.
Camden council flats in desirable Belsize Park NW3, bought at auction by private developers earlier this year, have been ‘flipped’, for a potentially massive profit – Camden Labour can reveal.
Sold as part of Tory-Lib Dem Camden’s council house sales programme, a three flat home on the Russell Nurseries Estates in Aspern Grove only left council control at the start of last month, when it was snapped up at auction for £560,000.
Now just one of the flats is being marketed for buyers at the sum of £250,000 – a price the estate agent described on their website as “unbelievable” – allowing the buyer to make a substantial profit almost overnight.
This is despite the fact that there are 18,000 people on Camden’s waiting lists.
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