THE chief executive of a housing charity has blasted new Government plans to build more homes.

Brighton Housing Trust boss Andy Winter says the report is “the most disappointing report in my 30 years in housing”.

He said: “Is that it? Have we had to wait for almost a year for this?”

Giving tenants greater support so they can hold their landlords to account is being considered as part of Government proposals on social housing in England.

The measures include speeding up the complaints process and publishing league tables to highlight the performance of landlords.

The Green Paper also pledges a scheme to offer tenants the right to buy one per cent of their home each year.

The plans are part of a “fundamental rethink” on social housing following the Grenfell tragedy.

But Mr Winter is not impressed. He said: “Sajid Javid, the then secretary of state, promised us last September a ‘wide-ranging, top-to-bottom review of the issues facing the sector’.

“He said that the Green paper will be the most substantial report of its kind for a generation.

“Three housing ministers and one secretary of state later, the Government’s Green Paper makes no commitment to build even one more home.

“The measures to help tenants hold their landlords to account is little more than putting in place something that the former Conservative housing minister Grant Shapps abolished seven years ago.

“And as for league tables. Please.

“At the end of July I wrote: ‘I desperately hope that ministers haven’t been wasting their time discussing league tables and other cosmetic measures. If they have, it will be nothing more than a distraction from the serious business of trying to solve housing affordability and supply crisis’.

“The Green Paper is a wasted opportunity.

“It does nothing to address housing supply, or affordability, or the conditions that led to the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

“Rather than it being ‘the most substantial report of its kind for a generation’, it is the most disappointing report in my 30 years in housing.”