October 2008 Archives
It's time to build new homes in Southport
Posted by Visiter Newsdesk on October 2, 2008 6:39 PM
ACCORDING to current news reports, houses are not selling as fast as they were a year ago.
And yet an estimated 4,000 families in North Sefton are desperate to move into new homes. So it is of deep concern that house building has slowed down, with thousands of construction workers laid off.
Now the Government has announced that 500 homes must be built in Sefton each year from now until 2021.
The past few months have been difficult, but hopes are now growing that the US Senate may have set the wheels turning to start the recovery in the banking world and that as a result the housing market locally may soon start to recover.
When it does, the pages in the Southport Visiter's popular Your Property supplement are testament to the fact that thousands of people desperately want to live in Southport.
To people from outside town (and famously those wanting to retire here!), our resort is a stunning place in which to live. The battle is on, however, for the new homes to be built within the Southport area. It is time for an end to Sefton's calamitous Pathfinder scheme which has placed restrictive controls preventing many developers from building much sought-after homes in Southport.
Instead, planners have tried to encourage the building of new properties in areas such as Bootle, Netherton and Litherland, creating an artificial demand which simply does not exist - except out of necessity.
This has made life desperate for would-be first-time buyers and young families in Southport who want to buy homes near their families, among friends and raise their own children in the town which they love.
Why force a 'regeneration' of South Sefton by giving families from the north of the borough little choice but to move into an area where they simply do not want to live?
Market forces - and people's own choice - should be left to rule.
Let's build these new homes - but let's make sure they're built in Southport.
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