We all want to see more homes, but we also value our green spaces and don’t want to see England built over.
That’s why Wandsworth Council’s hidden homes scheme is so imaginative.
Wandsworth Council looks really hard at all the land that it owns to see if it is possible to find underused or disused buildings which with some imagination could be turned into real homes.
Wandsworth have identified up to 300 potential dwellings and converted 130 of them already. New homes for people without any green spaces being built on.
You can read more about the scheme here.
Labour have currently left 73,061 public sector homes in England languishing and empty. All at the same time as people are struggling to get on the housing ladder.
Mark Clarke believes that such a Hidden Homes scheme should be expanded across the whole country. Wandsworth Council have calculated that there could be 10,000 new homes built through this scheme in London alone.
The Government shouldn’t be sitting on derelict and defunct buildings when people are struggling to get on the housing ladder.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had a Government as imaginative about housing as Wandsworth Council?