Labour’s ‘Pro-Housing’ MP Pushes to Block Affordable Homes

Fresh-faced Labour MP Chris Bloore is putting his best foot forward to cling on to his wafer-thin 789-vote majority in Redditch, playing the NIMBY card to keep locals sweet. The council is fuming over a developer’s proposal to build 214 homes, including 66 affordable homes—50 of which would be social housing aimed at helping those most in need – on a redundant part a golf club.[…] Read the rest