12 February 2011
Housing saga continues
Press Release from NPT Defend Council Housing Campaign
Neath Port Talbot campaigners who are opposed to the imminent transfer of a billion pounds worth of council homes to NPT Homes are deeply concerned about unofficial reports coming from the council that the new senior managers are to be paid gigantic salaries which are to come from the rents paid by tenants. A Defend Council Housing spokesman says:
' We have long been concerned that a handful of individual managers would get the cream if stock transfer goes ahead but these reported fat cat salaries of a hundred thousand pounds a year while the country is in a deep recession is a scandal in the making'.
The anti stock transfer campaigners have also received reports that ordinary council housing workers are unhappy about being transferred to the new housing organisation because the new jobs they are to take are at lower pay grades than expected.
The DCH Campaign has written to the chief executive of the NPT Council calling on him to halt the stock transfer because of the Council unlawful behaviour in deny anti stock transfer campaigners and tenants vital information during the run up to the ballot which took place a year ago, Its spokesman said:
'The NPT Council has been very bashful in its public response to the criticisms levelled at it by the Information Commissioner a government body also faces possible contempt of court proceedings if it does not comply with his rulings within the next few weeks. The stock transfer vote took place after 5 million pounds of public money was spent to persuade tenants to vote yes and after some very questionable measures were taken by the NPT Council to prevent the anti privatisation campaigners getting their message across to other tenants.'
