[g jones]

Don't mean to thread wander but Hyndburn has a huge Housing crises. There is very little we are doing right for the future IMO. Planning and spatial planning of develoment, green belt use, development quotas (huge oversupply in Hyndburn), house build quality & design, lifespan, green issues (transport, south facing, eco friendly, energy conservation), house mixture (80 yr wait for sheltered accom for elderly - bungalows not profitable etc..), tenure (£160,000 new build all the time?), estate planning (bulk refuse, open green spaces refused/limited instead of estate management fees), lack of consultation in regen areas, poor regen policies and poor regen financing leading to lack of pvte sector investment, skewed funding areas causing racial tensions, building control and planning policies working against regeneration (and which no-one cares about enough/understands enough to review or change). Sorry for going on but we could do so much better...