LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

South Holland gets it right on housing

South Holland DC’s leader Lord Gary Porter explains why, as a council with a longstanding commitment to investing in homes, it seized the chance to pilot the LGA’s new social housing management peer challenge.

Members and officers at South Holland DC have always had a shared passion, pride and commitment for housing that runs through everything we do.

We rejected repeated attempts by central Government to pursue Large Scale Voluntary Transfer (LSVT) of our 4,000-plus units in the early 2000s and made such a strong case with the help of the tenants that the Government abandoned its plans for ballot on transfer.

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