Sustainable Communities - amendment tracker

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Re: Sustainable Communities - amendment tracker (#1)

by doctordunc on Sat May 17, 2008 at 01:14:06 PM GMT

SKIPTON AND RIPON CLP:


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“We recognise the strong support for first class council housing that provides decent homes with secure tenancies, low rents and an accountable landlord and will ensure that local authority Housing Revenue Accounts have sufficient resources to manage, maintain, repair and improve existing council homes and are able to sustain those improvements in future years. We will provide a level playing field on debt write-off, gap funding and Social Housing Grant so that local authorities can start building new council homes and make a significant contribution to the government’s 3 million target.”

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“We will introduce a ‘level playing field’ so that well performing councils will be able to access housing grants formerly reserved for housing associations, including Social Housing Grant”.


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“We accept the principle that all the income from tenants rents should be reinvested in the management, maintenance, repair and improvement of council homes and that allowances for this purpose should be set at a level that meets need as determined by independent research.”


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“There will be no attempt to introduce means testing, time limited tenancies or ‘commitment contracts’ to either existing or new council tenants that would undermine the principle that council housing is a tenure of choice available to people from a wide mix of circumstances”.


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“Respecting tenants’ choice a Labour government will not leave council tenants who have rejected privatisation without improvements and so will meet with authorities where tenants have voted No and the authority is unable to meet the ‘Decent Homes’ standard to provide sufficient gap funding to enable them to do so.”


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“To ensure that local authorities are able to maintain these improvements government accepts the principle that the income from tenants rents and housing capital receipts should be ring-fenced nationally and reinvested and that Management & Maintenance and Major Repairs allowances should be increased to reflect research into need.”


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“We are committed to supporting an independent tenants movement at local, regional and national level. OFTENANT will be required to consult representative organisations including Tenants & Residents Associations, local Tenants Federations, regional and national tenant bodies and ensure that these organisations receive funding and support to develop a genuinely independent, representative movement that is directly accountable to tenants at all levels.”



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"We will bring the railways back into public ownership."


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