Councils warned not to rush into tearing up housing deals with private firms

By Joey Gardiner and Hamish Champ2018-05-31T06:00:00

Source: Twitter

As £2bn Haringey homes row rumbles on, local authorities told they lack skills to build for themselves

Local councils looking to scrap deals to build more homes with private sector partners and do the work themselves have been told they could face problems bringing in funding and getting enough skilled people to carry out the jobs.

Doubts about private sector involvement in local authority schemes were heightened last month following the election of a new Labour administration in Haringey.

The party had campaigned to scrap the Haringey Development Vehicle, a £2bn joint venture housing and regeneration scheme agreed between Lendlease and the previous Labour council, arguing it effectively “privatised” people’s homes.

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