Andy Burnham’s pledge to deliver a council-house building boom has sparked fears it could deliver fewer homes than those promised under the Labour Government’s current scheme.
The prospective prime minister unveiled plans to kickstart the biggest council-house building programme since the end of the Second World War in order to “repair” the country’s public housing stock, led by a new “No 10 in the North”.
Burnham’s team said the proposals would seek to “replenish” Britain’s supply of council homes, which they said has been in “decline for more than four decades”.
But insiders have warned this may not be as much as the Government’s current major £39bn social and affordable housing scheme.
Shorts
