South Ribble election candidates debate housebuilding, finance and environment as area heads to polls
As South Ribble heads to the polls today . the Local Democracy Reporting Service has put the leaders of the main parties in South Ribble head-to-head to debate the big issues in the borough.
“We know the government have set targets to build houses – and we will keep to those targets. [But] to think that we need to [build] over 4,000 more houses than we actually need to provide – because it’s the Central Lancashire local plan and not South Ribble’s local plan – seems to me wrong.”“We haven’t signed up to anything – there’s a fundamental, either a deliberate or [just] a lack of understanding from Karen here.
Environment Will South Ribble be carbon neutral by 2030? That was the ambition the council set out almost four years ago – putting it 20 years ahead of the national target. But will it apply just to the authority itself or the entire district? “If we don’t hit that target…I’ll take it on the chin, but we’re going to do everything we possibly can to achieve [it]. We have delivered over 150,000 trees and we’re going to keep planting. We’re decarbonising all our leisure centres with a £5.
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