The issue of how we provide housing for Liverpool’s growing population, while protecting green spaces is a defining one for our city. I believe a Green approach provides the answers
Housing: There are huge problems with the lack of affordable housing in the UK today. Liverpool has huge potential to put itself at the forefront of a 21st century housing revolution, building a ‘living city’. We don’t just need to think about building homes, we need to think about building communities. We would achieve this by:
- Creating new council housing and business premises, to be delivered by a municipally-owned housing provider.
- Re-establishing a dedicated homelessness unit within the council to tackle the increasing problem of homelessness in the city.
- Introducing a planning requirement that all new construction on council owned land (or land sold by the council) would have to conform to Passive House energy standards.
- Prioritizing the renovation and modernization of existing housing stock over demolition.
- Putting brownfield sites at the top of the list for housing development.
