David Cameron is on a blitz of housing policy
announcements at the moment. First we had an idea for the direct commissioning
of new homes, now we have plans for regenerating 100 council estates. Knocking down and rebuilding peoples’ homes is obviously
always going to be controversial. But that doesn’t mean it is always wrong. If
the hard work is done to win the support of estate residents, and more
affordable homes get built as a result, it can be really positive. And where
estates are old and run down it can be positively essential to invest in
renewal or replacement. As we see it, Cameron’s regeneration proposals have two
clear advantages:
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You could get a lot more homes into London
through council estate regeneration.
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Second, the ‘Complete Streets’ approach the
government is backing has real merits.
Read more on the Shelter blog.
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