At the Suburban Community Council meeting held
in Nairn Academy earlier tonight the members agreed to write a letter to
politicians at Glenurquhart Road and maybe Holyrood too, outlining their displeasure at
present Council/Social housing allocation policy. All eight Community Councils at last week's jont meeting agreed on this initiative. A draft document read out by the Chair Dick Youngson found
favour with his fellow members. The letter approved unanimously tonight by the
Subbies contains the following message for Glenurquhart Road and other politicians:
“In terms of housing demand there was also
concern that Highland Councils calculations and assessments which are compiled
on a regional wide basis do not adequately and directly reflect local needs and
demands. There is undoubtedly a need for housing including social affordable
housing within Nairn but there is concern about the way in which such housing
is allocated. There is widespread perception that the current approach fails to
give sufficient priority to local needs and that the housing which is or has
been allocated in the Nairn area tends to be assigned, because of the points
system, mostly to applicants who have no, or very little, direct connection
with Nairn but who are deprived or disadvantaged in other respects. The meeting
therefore decided to request both the Council and, if appropriate, the
Government to review and amend the current points formula to reflect the
localisation agenda. This implies giving much greater weight to local
residency, origins and connections in order that, as a fundamental principal,
local housing is allocated to local people.”
1 comment:
I would encourage the Community Councillors (and indeed anyone else) to read over the principles as set out in the latest consultation draft of Scottish Planning Policy paras 79-103 inc. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0042/00421076.pdf
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