Housing Minister Grant Shapps has announced the abolition of Strategic Housing Inspections. Mr Shapps told council leaders that he has asked the Audit Commission not to commission any more. "Quite frankly I think they were a waste of your residents' money - nearly one and a half million pounds of the public's cash was going to be spent this year making you work to Whitehall's priorities - not your residents," he said. "We will also be throwing the inefficient and unfair Housing Revenue Account system in the bin." Mr Shapps is urging councils to move away from Whitehall control and make the most of the new freedoms they have been given. Read more on 24dash.
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