• WE know that the Labour council are under pressure to achieve their housing targets having failed to reach them in the past two years.

However, in their desperation to build at any cost they may endanger the most vulnerable in society by disregarding construction guidelines.

This is the case with the proposed building of a three-storey block on Windsor Street for 11 people with learning difficulties.

The Care Quality Commission have recently mandated that developers should only build accommodation for a maximum of six people on one site, otherwise it leads to institutionalisation.

Is the over-development of this site just to hit the housing targets or, as the council recently told us, is it because they have spent too much money on the scheme for it not to go ahead?

As usual the losers are the tax payers whose money is wasted on the wrong building and the vulnerable people who deserve a decent home, but will get an institution.

IAN FEARNLEY
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