Unison has warned the Government that any plans to use council staff pensions to fund a major housing programme would be open to legal challenge.
The plans were floated by a commission – set up by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) – which concluded that six million new homes could be built across Britain in the next 20 years by using the pension savings of more than four million council staff.
The commission wants the Local Government Association (LGA) to “d...
