Erewash Borough Council's Labour administration had tried to withdraw its ongoing new housing blueprint and was forced to keep it by Government
A leading councillor has claimed there is “only one solution” to the UK’s “housing crisis” and that is “building more homes”. Cllr Curtis Howard, lead member for planning at Erewash Borough Council and its planning committee chairman, made the claim in response to an article from the Local Democracy Reporting Service looking into the “affordable housing crisis” in the Derbyshire Dales.
“Tinkering around second properties doesn’t touch the sides. We have a housing crisis, and there’s only one solution: building more homes.” Cllr Howard is part of the Labour administration which sought to withdraw the authority’s near complete housing blueprint last year, before being stopped by central Government. The administration had also considered taking High Court action against the Government over its almost unprecedented intervention.
Cllr Howard said: “What we wanted to do was amend the core strategy because it was a bad plan. We ran on a manifesto commitment to review it, the only sensible thing to do when the local Tories had failed to deliver for more than a decade – never even meeting housing targets once.”
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