The Regulator of Social Housing has slammed Southampton City Council’s housing service with a damning C3 rating, highlighting unsafe housing conditions, missed safety inspections, and failures to meet the Decent Homes standard.
York’s Labour Party are currently preparing their budget ahead of next week’s local government finance settlement. This is the first budget the York Labour group will put forward following the election of their party to government.
The Labour administration is seeking to revert 20mph speed limits back to 30mph on several key roads in Southampton. While we broadly agree with these changes, it’s frustrating to see so much time, resource, and money wasted on reverting these roads
Last time I wrote for Liberal News, I focused on Southampton City Council’s quest for financial stability and its accompanying Transformation Programme. Since then a number of issues have come to the fore. Housing has been particularly important.
Gideon Amos, MP for Taunton and Wellington, has said new housing should be community led, come with the right infrastructure and be genuinely affordable for local people rather than imposed by “Whitehall diktat”
Woking MP Demands Urgent Inquest into Child Murder
