“It’s a weird seat, York Outer,” notes one local Conservative councillor.
Rather than being made up of the centre of a major settlement such as Scarborough and Whitby to the north, or Selby to the south, the seat is a mix of York’s suburbs and the small towns and villages dotted around. Much of its identity can be seen through the lens of being “not York”, and this is seen perhaps nowhere better than through the issue of housing.
“The 2014 local plan had to be abandoned because myself and another group of activists on the council at the time campaigned against 2,104 houses in a small village called Earswick,” he says. “My son and his partner earn over £70,000 between them. They could not get a three-bedroom house. I had to take out a lifetime mortgage on my property to give them the deposit to make sure they could afford a decent house.
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