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[quote=Graham Jones]Just a couple of responces:

I don't think we have really done well on Housing for a long time. I agree. We have been short sighted and unimaginative. Baxenden, statisically the wealthiest ward and newest build area, now in parts looks tired and aged after just 25 years. I saw them built and they were built quick and cheap back then.
Yes I saw them built as well, no different than other houses being built at the time, one thing is for sure if they were built to the same standard today they would not meet current regulations, but would comply with the regulations at the time they were built, in todays terms the estate was very badly planned, no school, no shops etc.

We did build spacious council housing which has avoided slums being replaced with slums. Where we didn't build spacious Social Housing, and it was built cheaply and to a higher density, it now has much less appeal and accordingly suffers more in my view. Its an interesting comparison on social build.
Is that not the thoughts of the office of the deputy prime minister, build houses of a higher density, more houses per acre, is this not why some developers are including blocks of flats in their schemes now.

If you build poorer housing you attract poorer people and paint a picture of which includes all the problems of poor urban areas of your area.
I would not say poorer houses, but cheaper houses aimed at the lower end of the market

The property price rise isn't based on housing supply and demand. Hyndburn has an over supply of about 2000 [out of 33000] so prices shopuld go down, not up.
Are HBC not taking care of that with the property being knocked down, some of which could have been refurbished to meet the current standards