Council can't agree over tower blocks

Great story this... at the recent State of the Borough debate the council leader and deputy had a massive disagreement over tower blocks. Council leader Clyde Loakes predictably insisted building tower blocks would give families a great new home. But deputy leader Keith Rayner disagreed, saying "One of my first experiences of Waltham Forest came in 1975 when I was in a tower block that didn't have a lift that worked... The stairs smelt like a public urinal and on the seventh floor, I saw a small four year-old girl cowering by the door. We should not make this same mistake again."
Read the Waltham Forest Guardian story