Government sold off public land for more than 200 housing developments with no affordable homes 🔴 theipaper has obtained a database revealing developers who were sold land, hospitals, prisons and offices as part of a mass sell-off of the public estate
Just a stone’s throw away from Manchester Victoria Station, two skyscrapers are currently in the process of being built on land that was once owned by Network Rail.
Running from 2011 until 2020, the Government’s Public Land for Housing programme aimed to support the building of 260,000 homes through the sell off of public assets, including empty land and disused hospitals, schools and military barracks. “This was land which was either in the control of local councils or various bits of the Government. Therefore all of those councils or the NHS or the police or whoever it was, this could and should have been an opportunity for them to use that land for public good, rather than short-term profit.”reveals that at least 224 of developments with more than 10 homes being built on land sold under the Public Land for Housing programme were not expected to include any affordable homes.
The former South Kent College site in Ashford sold by Homes England to HDD Ashford to build a brewery, commercial units, and 216 homes in partnership with U+I. While this is true, Ms Winson said there are many things the Government could have done to ensure more affordable housing was built on the public land it sold off, including more stringent rules on what the land could be used for and non-negotiable targets for the amount of affordable homes that must be delivered.
Mr Perry pointed to schemes meeting the rule like a 97-home project on Transport for London land in Finchley, north London, as examples of what was possible. But at the end of March this year there were 2,793 households living in temporary accommodation in Manchester alone and the council spends more than £30m per year housing these homeless families.
“Since 2015, they have missed their target for releasing government-owned land for housing by a shocking 100,000 homes. That’s 100,000 families denied the new homes they were promised,” she said.
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