MORE than 45 Solihull families who get over £26,000 a year in benefits have spurned council
offers of help about a forthcoming cap on payments, it has been revealed.
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Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Bonus offer for new housing boss
A SEARCH is being made for a boss for Solihull’s council houses – with the lure of a
bonus.
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bonus.
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Thursday, 15 April 2010
Dorridge parking ban to deter commuters
PARKING is set to be banned from a Dorridge street to deter railway commuters – but it could take several years.Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council has moved to introduce waiting restrictions in Arden Road, to the rear of the station.
Yet a transport boss agreed to take no action at this time and include the road in a plan of 56 proposed restrictions. See a map of the proposed restrictions here.
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Monday, 29 March 2010
Grants for council homes to be capped
A LIMIT is to be set on how much council tenants can be given to improve their home – and council staff will urge them to look at loans instead.
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Wednesday, 3 February 2010
MP says bill will increase council homes
SOLIHULL will get more affordable housing if a bill goes through the Commons, the borough’s MP has said.
Liberal Democrat Lorely Burt is backing a Commons bid to let councils spend developer cash building or improving housing and not just roads and community facilities.
Developers often have to contribute cash to road changes or community projects in exchange for being given planning permission by Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council.
Unlike other authorities, the cash-strapped council has kept ownership of its council homes, managed by Solihull Community Housing.
But Mrs Burt says this means cash goes on infrastructure ‘already of high standard’ and sometimes on ‘projects of marginal importance’.
In a press release she said: “With 12,842 people on the housing register in Solihull as of October 2009 we need to ensure there are greater opportunities for the council to increase the social housing stock.
“The Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (Amendment) Bill does just that”
Yet the Government has refused to back the bill – led by Lib Dem Simon Hughes – and it has been questioned by the Conservatives.
Housing minister Shahid Malik said: “Instead of mitigating the impacts of developments for local communities that are directly impacted, the money could be used elsewhere, which completely undermines the rationale for the [agreement with developers] in the first place.”
He told a debate in the chamber on Friday that homes had been improved under the Government’s ‘decent homes’ programme and it had begun a new council house building scheme.
And Conservative Rugby & Kenilworth MP Jeremy Wright said: “If he enables councils to spend that money on housing, are we in danger not only of failing to solve the problem of inadequate infrastructure, but of adding to it by bringing in more housing without that attendant infrastructure?”
Shadow housing minister Stewart Jackson branded it ‘a piecemeal Bill that tackles a symptom rather than the substantive issue’ and it amounted to a ‘development tax’.
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Liberal Democrat Lorely Burt is backing a Commons bid to let councils spend developer cash building or improving housing and not just roads and community facilities.
Developers often have to contribute cash to road changes or community projects in exchange for being given planning permission by Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council.
Unlike other authorities, the cash-strapped council has kept ownership of its council homes, managed by Solihull Community Housing.
But Mrs Burt says this means cash goes on infrastructure ‘already of high standard’ and sometimes on ‘projects of marginal importance’.
In a press release she said: “With 12,842 people on the housing register in Solihull as of October 2009 we need to ensure there are greater opportunities for the council to increase the social housing stock.
“The Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (Amendment) Bill does just that”
Yet the Government has refused to back the bill – led by Lib Dem Simon Hughes – and it has been questioned by the Conservatives.
Housing minister Shahid Malik said: “Instead of mitigating the impacts of developments for local communities that are directly impacted, the money could be used elsewhere, which completely undermines the rationale for the [agreement with developers] in the first place.”
He told a debate in the chamber on Friday that homes had been improved under the Government’s ‘decent homes’ programme and it had begun a new council house building scheme.
And Conservative Rugby & Kenilworth MP Jeremy Wright said: “If he enables councils to spend that money on housing, are we in danger not only of failing to solve the problem of inadequate infrastructure, but of adding to it by bringing in more housing without that attendant infrastructure?”
Shadow housing minister Stewart Jackson branded it ‘a piecemeal Bill that tackles a symptom rather than the substantive issue’ and it amounted to a ‘development tax’.
Watch the debate below.
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Saturday, 23 January 2010
Video: tenants get online
SOLIHULL Community Housing has produced a video about how it is helping its tenants to get online.
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