Derelict sites must be put back into good use

Building houses per se is not the answer to homelessness and neither is clearing up derelict sites.

Derelict sites clearly reflect an attitude in society that it is alright for people to buy up property and allow it to become derelict over the years while they amass a bigger site.

Student bodies carried out a study which showed public bodies own as much as one third of such derelict sites. That is an incredible waste of resources and we are allowing it to happen.