Cllr Eileen Glover and Cllr Adam Thomas recently attended the Avery Hill Housing Panel, to discuss with tenants and leaseholders issues affecting the estate.  

Labour tenants waiting for decent homes upgrades had to suffer during the recent long, cold winter. Residents reported to Charlton's conservative council candidates that they had waited so long for double-glazing that they had to use masking tape to exclude drafts in their single-glazed windows. Many council tenants are so disaffected with their Labour landlords that they pledged to vote for their Conservative council candidates in the forthcoming local elections.

While Labour candidates continue to try and scare council tenants to win votes, Conservatives in Eltham South have been dealing with the problems created by the Labour council's housing policies.

The Labour Government and local Labour Council are failing the most vulnerable members of our community. Their crippling mismanagement of the social housing problem in Woolwich has caused a 75% increase in the waiting list, leaving many families suffering in overcrowded conditions. Like many other problems that face Woolwich today, the Labour Councillors seem to turn a blind eye.

Greenwich Conservatives have made a positive commitment to provide support to Armed Forces Service leavers in the Borough by counting their time in the Services towards an allocation for housing.
 

 Following on from another weekend of delivering to West Greenwich homes, it was apparent that the local Labour Council has resorted to scare tactics by intimidating Greenwich tenants.

Conservatives have established that the waiting list for Council housing in Greenwich has increased by 75% since Labour took power nationally. Since 1997, the number of people on the waiting list has risen from 7,693 to 13,486. This has a particularly bad effect on households in Greenwich where the waiting list is the equivalent of 13.8% of the total number of households.
 

From Spencer Drury, PPC for Greenwich & Woolwich

The Government has told Greenwich Council to improve its houses.  At present around 83% of the Council's housing stock is not up to a 'decent' standard, after years of neglect. The council is about £24 million short of the funds to remedy this. 

The Council is therefore considering three options: