Dismore backs need for key worker housing for emergency service workers
At today’s Mayor’s Question Time, Andrew Dismore, London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden welcomed the decision to halt the sale of fire brigade buildings, to see how they could contribute to emergency service worker housing instead. (video here)
Mr Dismore said:
‘Can I say how pleased I was to hear that the previous mayor’s plans to sell off Clerkenwell Fire Station, where there are quite a number of disused flats above the station, has been halted, as has the sale of the empty four cottages behind West Hampstead fire station, so as to see if they can be used to ease the housing crisis, especially for key workers.
The West Hampstead homes were wastefully neglected under your predecessor. It would now cost about £500k to refurbish them and to bring them back into use for what they were originally intended: key worker housing for firefighters.
‘Properties like these should not be sold off on the open market where they could be used or converted for keyworker housing especially for the emergency services, like former fire and police buildings’.
