Richard Shakespeare
speaker
150 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 25 Apr
Richard Shakespeare’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's not an optimum position to be in.
But all we can do in terms of the public sector is try to deliver more social and affordable units.
We are the planning authority, but I don't believe I can turn around and sort of say, well, no, you can't do this.
But we do take our 10 to 20 percent social and affordable out of those built to rents.
Isn't that the problem, that by the time you buy them... Well, by the time we acquire them, okay, and then we put them out, we might spend half a million on acquiring it under Part 5 legislation, but we'll then rent it out for 15 to 18% it is now of the net disposable income of the primary earner.
Well, I suppose.
I mean, it is challenging, Pat.
I don't deny it.
It is challenging.
But what you've got to look at is it is, you might say, the primary challenge.
And the public transport piece is critical.
We need to try to move people around.
We operate a traffic control system which tries to move traffic around as quick as we possibly can.
We're one of the slowest cities now in Europe.
Well, we are, but I mean, because there's an over-reliance on the private motor car coming in and out of town, and that's why Metrolink will be important, the Dark West.
Yeah, and I mean, over the next number of years, Pat, I mean, I have a special unit in place because of the impact of everything from the ESBs powering up, which will be digging up the streets,
We have, you know, the active travel program.
We have Metrolink.
We have Dart Plus, Dart Southwest.
You know, there's the 12 quality bus connects corridors.
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