Comment

Representation ID: 7094

Received: 07/03/2019

Respondent: Tetlow King Planning

The Council should seek to understand the impacts of any change in the affordable housing threshold measure by calculating how this would have impacted on development proposals that have already been assessed at application stage, and those likely to come forward through this Plan Review. Once this work has been completed the most appropriate mechanism to use will become clearer.
Consider a combination of policies on expected housing type, size and tenure mix together with an appropriate threshold measure. The use of the optional National Space Standards across all tenures may be a useful measure where this is justified by local need, and is viable. This may assist in coordinating floorspace across tenures. Introducing this for single tenures is generally resisted as this can have the impact of reducing scheme viability.