Thame’s Affordable housing plan being ‘blocked’ by district council
On 07/11/2018 At 4:14 am
Category : Missed a ThameNews story?, More News, Thame news
Responses : 2 Comments
THE public launch of a Thame Community Land Trust (CLT), which will provide affordable homes for local people, will happen ‘in the near future’, according to the man leading the project.
Cllr Bob Austin, who Chairs the Thame Neighbouhood Plan Continuity Committee, reported the progress of the Thame CLT at a meeting of the committee tonight (Tuesday, 06/11).
The money for the Legal formation of a CLT is in hand, he reported, and the various Working Parties involved are working well, but that ‘the missing part of the jigsaw’ is the long-delayed Housing Needs Survey, from South Oxfordshire District Council.
Cllr Austin has now escalated the need for an updated Housing Needs analysis for Thame to the Leader of SODC, Cllr Jane Murphy, asking her to review the Thame CLT’s progress, which her council is blocking.
“We wait, hopeful of some action!” he concluded.
Add your comment
I would suggest that when the Greyhound Lane police station was build by the police authority, the economic situation of the country was very different and the old police station in Chinnor Road, was no longer fit for purpose for modern policing. Since then, the police have had their funding drastically cut over the last few years, and so the police found it necessary to sell off some of their prime sites and move to other, cheaper-to-run accommodation.
Why was the police station built at great expense only to be pulled down within a decade?