New homes 'not enough' for bay's needs

TORBAY has been urged to do more to help people desperate for social housing across the three towns of the English Riviera.

- GUY HENDERSON

The bay’s councillors agreed unanimously to buy four new-build homes in Paignton - three of them for local families in need of temporary accommodation and one for a family under the Afghan Resettlement Scheme.

But they admitted the move would hardly scratch the surface of the bay’s problems.

to buy the homes, and the government insists that the fourth home must go to people from Afghanistan whose lives are at risk in their own country because they helped British forces during the war there.