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Published: 25 October 2007

Figures on home sales not entirely down to ‘Right to Buy’

• YOUR letter-writers last week say that the figures on sales of council homes under Labour which you helpfully printed were purely the result of government policy on Right to Buy, allowing council tenants to buy their flats as leaseholders.
Of course, we now have 9,000 leaseholders, and I’m pleased that since this Liberal Democrat-led administration was elected last year we’ve already improved payment terms for leaseholders faced with big bills, and we’re looking to do more. But your letter-writers are quite wrong to explain these figures away as entirely Right to Buy. More than 700 council homes over this period were disposed of by Labour outside Right to Buy – indeed more than 500 of these in one five-year period.
I assure you and your readers that this administration is committed to a strong, positive council housing sector.
We know there is a desperate need for social housing, if government allowed us funding to build new council homes we would be doing so immediately.
CLLR CHRIS NAYLOR
Liberal Democrat, Camden Town with Primrose Hill
Executive Member for Housing

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@camdennewjournal.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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