Wrexham Against Stock Transfer was set up in 2003 to fight the transfer of council housing to a private not for profit landlord “Tai Wrexham”. On a shoestring budget and against a council campaign that spent nearly a million pounds, tenants rejected stock transfer by a comfortable majority. Two years later the council conducted an extensive opinion pole with a view to re-balloting and found that attitudes had hardened with only 20% actually in favour of transfer.
Campaigners believed that was the end of the matter but those vocal members of the local tenants federation had other ideas. 2008 we had a new plan stock transfer on one estate. Luckily the council don’t want to brake up the housing stock so have hit that idea into the long grass.
This week however we have seen a big new development, Aled Roberts leader of the council announcing that our housing stock will need 800 million pounds spending on it over the next 30 years and will only have 400 million to spend. His view is that we only have one option to deal with this shortfall, stock transfer.
So we tenants who are against stock transfer are getting back together. If the council want to try again we will be ready and we will win again.
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If the housing stock goes to RSL,im afraid, as we have seen in parts of the uk, housing assocations, running the estates down, and unable to borrow any more money of the banks, the only option would be to sell the land of to developers,this has been done, no interest in its tenants, i sniff some wrong .
ReplyDeletewhy did Communities first ask open communities to conduct a survey, not sure of what, about options avaliable, at acost of £27,000 FOR THE FIRST PHASE, second phase was the questioner,which is very missleading,did they get payed for this? why was this survy done, Aled roberts, said we are not having a stock transfer? so what is he saying?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.opencommunities.org/
Have a look at what happened to Aldershot-based Pavilion Housing Association and Eastleigh-based Atlantic Housing Association recently merged to form First Wessex Housing Group. Strictly speaking it was not a merger, it was a takeover of Pavilion by Atlantic,
ReplyDeletehousing estates made way for new car parks and new shopping malls, and posh flats, google it