The Scottish Labour Party leader visited an eco-friendly warm homes project today in Caledonia Square, in the city’s Gorbals, alongside Glasgow East candidate John Grady.
Speaking about the need for more social housing, Sarwar says they want to “fix planning” in the city to attract further investment in Glasgow, as well as deliver economic stability across the UK to bring down the costs of people’s mortgages.
“We’ve got to change that landscape to inspire confidence and we have got to sort out the planning system because the planning system is pushing investments away from Glasgow and Scotland rather than pulling them towards Glasgow and Scotland.” The Glasgow Times previously reported in 2022 that seven Glasgow MPs backed a bid to have VAT scrapped on the cost of refurbishment and retrofitting to make tenement flats eco-friendly after a report for Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations estimated the cost of restoring more than 46,000 tenement flats across Glasgow, built pre-1919 and deemed dangerous, could hit £2.9billion.