From the Barnet and Potters Bar Times:
Families needing affordable housing in the borough may have to wait longer after Barnet Council rejected the Mayor of London's target for new homes.
Boris Johnson scrapped his predecessor Ken Livingstone's demand that 50 per cent of all new developments are affordable to low-income families, pledging instead to negotiate individual targets with boroughs.
But the council says the Mayor's target of creating 3,369 units by March 2011 is unrealistic in the economic climate and hopes to haggle the figure down to between 1,135 and 1,700.
There are 13,637 households on the borough's housing waiting list.
Says it all, really. But read on for what local Councillors say.
