I have just learned that 141 flats are being built in Ilford town centre.  It is being hailed as an achievement but is it?  Only 36 of them are to be 'affordable to rent'.  What of the other 105? Presumably they are either excessively high rents or are to be sold.  We need more homes, a lot more homes to rent, and the rents should be really affordable.  It isn't happening.
I live near a huge plot of land.  I would be quite happy for an estate of council houses to be built there, provided they also increased the infrastructure... school, doctors' surgery, transport etc.
They have built these flats in Ilford and there is still talk of closing the A&E at King George's.
Crazy!