Yesterday I mentioned some disturbing news that had been put before our local Labour rulers about the number of houses that will ‘need’ to be built in Sefton (virtually all on high grade agricultural land), that’s of course if you believe the statisticians who seem to have made a made a mess of such counting previously! This was my posting:-
Presently, Labour’s draft Local Plan for the Borough wants 615 houses built every year. This is a lot of high grade agricultural land to lose under tarmac and concrete. BUT now statisticians working for/providing information to the Council are in effect saying hang on a minute the last lot of statisticians made a b*lls up of the counting on previous occasions and in fact they got the figures for Liverpool utterly wrong! So what does this mean? Yes you have guessed it Sefton wants to increase the number of houses built each year to between 710 (not much above the 615 figure) and 1,290! If this latter figure is reached then it is more than twice the 615 figure which many of us think is too high anyway.
Residents fighting for their Green Belt in Lydiate
By the way it is the fact that the Liverpool Council area figures have been so wrong (in the past) that means, so we told by the experts, that Sefton will have to build so many new houses in the future. What they mean is that far more people will be leaving Liverpool, than they originally thought, to come and live in Sefton and the Borough does not have the houses to accommodate them all at present.
And who has been saying that the population statistics being used by Sefton are unreliable? The Lib Dems and environmental campaigners such as Fragoff! And how do we know that the present ‘new’ figures are reliable? Why has the previous under recording in Liverpool only surfaced now? Who has known about it and for how long? Can we believe anything these statisticians are telling us?
My next posting on this matter will deal with the consequences of this astonishing leap in figures for new housing in Sefton as simply building twice as many houses over the forthcoming years in the Borough is not simply a case of putting more high grade agricultural land under concrete and tarmac. Even our Labour-led Council can see that, I hope!
