Ministers have been told they will fail to deliver on
promises to build thousands of new unless to give councils greater freedoms
over skills. The chairman of the Local Government Association (LGA) said a
dramatic fall in the number of people completing construction apprenticeships
makes the target of 275,000 new affordable homes by 2020 almost impossible to
achieve. Coun Gary Porter called for councils to be given control over how
money is spent on skills so that it can be used to meet the needs of local
businesses. He said: “The Government has expressed a clear ambition to build
more affordable homes. Central to this is lifting housing borrowing limits to
allow us to invest in new housing, giving us the freedom to set Right to Buy
discounts and retain 100 per cent of the receipts locally.” Read more on the
Yorkshire Post website.
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