Full Council March 26th

I put this question to The executive member , housing and adult services.

Please confirm how many homes from the RBK,s housing stock fall below the decent standard home criteria, and how dose this compare year on year over the pass four years,
The question was put to see if the governments target would be met, the answer shows that it would not be,
27% in 2003
26% in 2004
20% in 2005/6
20% in 2007
I take this to mean there are about 1000 homes that do not come up to a decent home standard.

As a supplementary question I then asked given that at the MCNC we were told that there were 11 property's that would cost £50.000 each to bring up to the standard, and given that we were also told that new front doors had been fitted to some property's at a cost of about £1200 each, would she ensure that costing of maintenance work is vigorously vetted.

I believe that property's that are so expensive to be put right, will be handed over to an housing association, the danger with that is the fine line the council will have to follow, if it is not to be accused of deliberately running down the stock in order to move it onto housing associations

Lies afoot

There is someone spreading rumours, that are completely untrue (me thinks dirty trick are afoot) it is said that Old Malden Library is to Close, The Chairman of Malden and Coombe , Cllr Patrick Codd as stated that as long as the Conservatives control the Committee this will not take place, unless the Lib/Dem executive over rule them.

No way will the Conservative allow it to be closed