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Labour council ‘breaks promise’ to snub privateers
A LONDON Labour council was accused yesterday of lying to its residents after announcing it would replace 4,000 council homes with privately rented new builds.
Earlier this year, a Haringey Council officer was recorded promising locals that demolished estates would not be sold to private developers.
But in a cabinet meeting last week the council agreed to transfer social tenants to “a housing association currently known as a private registered provider.”
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