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FROM THE EDITOR


James Parker


Prime Minister Andy Burnham is returning from his summer holiday to a wake up call, in terms of the bulging to-do list he has already assembled ne of his fi rst utterances, even before offi cially confi rmed as PM was to reinforce his commitment to a council homebuilding programme that would be the ‘biggest since the post war period.’ This is the cornerstone of his aim to cut welfare and fund all his other plans.


Burnham championed social housebuilding as the way to redistribute wealth from private landlords to local authority coffers, as the fair and sustainable way to bring the welfare bill down and meet our fi scal rules.” It does sound like an awful lot is hinging on this.


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owever theres no detail yet on this massive council building programme, such as likely funding streams. Instead, some well-meant promises on how better homes will mean savings for the whole country e will help people to live well, building a more preventative state, investing in peoples success, rather than paying for failure


The issue, as well as – ironically – part of a solution, might emerge with urnhams parallel mission to devolve decision maing to the regions, following his moderate success building homes, among other achievements, in anchester he new, cluny buword, anchesterism is thought to have resulted in over , new affordable homes across the region between  and , however they only managed , homes specifi cally for social rent


he  might want a place fi rst, not party fi rst strategy across the , but the bottom line is that achieving maor numbers of council homes for social rent is probably unliely without huge levels of overnment subsidy he ection  route of reuiring developers to deliver a proportion of social housing is declining in popularity, and something else is needed. Namely, a national council housebuilding strategy with compelling incentives for developers


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urnham said his overnment would use vacant public land to reduce costs, and promote higher density residential development in towns ut achieving the ust under , council houses we built in  is going to tae a lot more intervention than that lanning reform has to include some form of legal, possibly draconian reuirement for social housing allied to funding, if we are going to really make this much more than a set of aspirations nd as others have said, that is going to pull away from the local decisionmaing which planners have long practiced, to more regional oversight t will be messy


ith the relentless heat this summer pointing to a worrying future, we also have to ensure that swathes of new council homes do not create uncomfortable, and potentially unsafe, overheating he  ealth ecurity gency  produced an interim heat mortality monitoring report recently, which showed there were , heat associated deaths in ngland during ay and une  hocingly, this is almost double the fi gure they reported for the whole of 


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This has to be a ‘wake up call,’ as the Chartered Institute of nvironmental ealth  says epresenting nvironmental ealth professionals woring with councils, does such a body have the clout to go beyond Part O, and ensure that new homes are designed with future resilience ould we fi nally see inward opening windows plus eternal shutters rolled out across the , as they are in southern urope, as our climate changes forever


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