Housing policy has resulted in disaster

Tower blocks for single people and couples were being pulled down, in some areas entire streets. Local government could not pull down properties fast enough. Does anyone else recall the skyline above the Midland station as well as the notorious Kelvin Flats at Hillsborough?

Then in 2004, the government opened the door to the EU and now look: local people (who had no say on either policy) can hardly get a look in on account of the huge demand on what remains.

Have any of the council’s highly paid executives any comment to make on the total lack of preparedness, foresight, planning that was involved?

As a policy, the clearing of housing on that scale was clearly an irreversible disaster, for which no-one appears to be held accountable. What do we have now? Thousands of privately-owned, scarcely affordable, properties in their place.

Mr S, Sheffield S8.