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Lib Dems Reject Ken's Housing Diktat
October 5, 2006 5:51 PM
At Council this week local Lib Dems voted to reject Ken Livingstone's Diktat on the numbers of units of housing to be built in Islington in the next ten years.
Ken Livingstone had demanded that Islington build 1,160 housing units a year for the next 10 years. Despite Islington being the second smallest and second most densely populated borough in London this is 7th highest target for number of homes to be built in London.
Lib Dems who have been campaigning against the target officially rejected it last night by putting a lower figure in the local development framework.
The target of 1160 homes is twice that of larger neighbouring borough Camden.
Cllr Terry Stacy Executive member for Housing and Communities said: -
"We are small, we are densely populated. This target makes no concessions to that. It's a centralised target and it makes you wonder if the people who wrote it have even been here.
"We do need more housing, and lots of people want to live here. But over development would threaten the unique nature of Islington. We've kept our target high because we want to provide more affordable housing, but we don't want to build slums and we can't accept Ken's over ambitious figure.
"This is typical Ken Livingstone arrogance - believing he knows best and ignoring the people who live here."
The Facts
These are the targets for all London boroughs
Borough Housing Target
Newham 3510
Tower Hamlets 3150
Barnet 2055
Greenwich 2010
Southwark 1630
Barking and Dagenham 1190
Islington 1160
Bromley 1120
Lambeth 1100
Hackney 1085
Redbridge 1055
Lewisham 975
Ealing 915
Wandsworth 745
Haringey 680
City of Westminster 680
Waltham Forest 665
Croyden 595
Havering 535
Camden 485
Hammersmith and Fulham 450
Hounslow 445
Harrow 400
Enfield 395
Kingston upon Thames 385
Merton 370
Hillingdon 365
Kensington & Chelsea 350
Bexley 345
Sutton 345
Richmond Upon Thames 270
Corporation of London 90
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