Housing 
Get a bigger house in Yeovil and the state pays(0)
Image via Wikipedia The Sun has this morning laid in to a couple and their nine children who have just moved house in Yeovil. They have gone from one council owned property to another that has been specially converted for them. As ever with newspapers I am sure there are two sides to this story [...]
Affordable Housing Pledge
I have been approached by the National Housing Federation to sign their pledge on affordable housing and I have been happy to do so. The pledge reads: ‘I pledge to back the building of more affordable homes and to work towards all constituents having access to decent, affordable housing in safe and sustainable communities.’
We scraped out of recession but poor children are even poorer
Image via Wikipedia Two very simple statistics came out today which lay bare the appalling legacy of the appalling Prime Minister Blair. The first was that the economy had scraped out of recession by a mere 0.1%. This is a very small figure and as these forecasts are made on having received only 40% of [...]
Development threatening ‘way of life’ in Hinton St George
Image via Wikipedia There has been a controversial planning application lodged on the outskirts of the village of Hinton St George, near Crewkerne. You can see the application here. The application is for a Gypsy encampment of two caravans to house a family who are travellers. A number of people have approached me for my [...]