Letter to the editor: News Shopper has raised an important and worrying trend in Greenwich Council’s housing policy (Poor show, October 1).
Increasingly, we see new developments delivering less affordable homes, and the council continually caves in to the demands of developers, instead of standing up for the interests of residents.
The Kidbrooke Village development is another case in point. Similar to the peninsula, it is seeing one-bedroom flats marketed at more than £300,000 – completely out of the reach of most young people in the borough. Indeed so much out of the reach of local people that the developer has been seeking to sell the flats in the Far East instead.
How can this create the kind of communities we want, where young people can raise their families in the place they grew up in? The reality is that the council now has more than 12,000 people on its housing waiting list.
What we need are new homes specifically designated and discounted for local first-time buyers to get them on the ladder and staying in the borough. It is time we had local housing that really was for local people.
COUNCILLOR SPENCER DRURY, Conservative parliamentary candidate for Eltham
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