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Some families have been moved into Council Housing with 2 bedrooms as an emergency measure and have become stuck on transfer lists for 3 bedroom and 4 bedroom houses for some time. To provide a solution to this problem could the Council start building extensions on to these 2 bedroom properties to help meet the demand and reduce the number of families on the transfer list? There is nothing in theory to stop the council building extensions. In practice there would be a number of difficulties to be overcome. The primary purpose of the Housing Capital Programme is to ensure that all of the Council's stock meets he decent homes standard by 2010. This is why we have made a bid to become an ALMO. Extensions do not in themselves bring a house up to the decent homes standard. At the moment the capital programme is largely devoted to window renewal and central heating installation which has a direct effect on the decent homes standard. There is one exception to this in Northborough where an empty 3- bedroom house will be converted into a 5 bed-roomed house. |