Tuesday, 6 March 2007

Council Estates

The petition is entitled Limit the number of Council Estates to 1 for each town and the explanatory notes say
"Council estates were good places to live after the war but have now turned into breading grounds for all manner of things bad and are a great strain on the Police forces, so we need to limit these estates now to 1 for each town, maximum of 500 houses."

Firstly let us mock the petitioner: a breading ground? Puts breadcrumbs on bad things?

I don't know a lot about council estates. One hears bad things, one hears good things ... I don't know. But I do know that towns can range from 200,000 people to about 600. Which probably means that dictating a maximum number of council houses and/or estates that a "town" can have seems a little ... unhelpful.

Then there's the fact that I didn't think any new council houses were being built ... certainly I find no evidence on the internet of any. So does the petitioner want to sell off some more?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Or of course, they could try not building council estates and mix in council housing around the area (as originally happened in rural areas).