Labour has warned there is a risk of the resurgence of
post-war style slums that fuelled illness as it announced plans to join up
health and housing policies. Hundreds of thousands of rented homes are unfit to
live in, according to the party. It set out plans to create healthy homes zones
that would target areas with the worst quality housing. Shadow housing
secretary John Healey warned the country faced a return to the problems of the
"evil" of squalor that William Beveridge warned of when he paved the
way for the welfare state. Read more on the Independent website.
‘Ludicrous’ plan to build skyscraper over Georgian Birmingham building
rejected
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Councillors unanimously refuse permission for 42-storey block of flats on
top of former residence and hospital
Councillors in Birmingham have unanimously...
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