Comment

Representation ID: 7455

Received: 11/03/2019

Respondent: Rentplus

Agent: Tetlow King Planning

Approaches based on the square meterage or habitable rooms/floorspace are not generally supported due to the inherent difficulties in designing for the policy, which causes developers to calculate the appropriate level of delivery by reference to optimal market floorspace instead of baseline numbers. This also causes difficulties in decision making and monitoring of delivery, and therefore in setting appropriate responses to underdelivery of affordable housing. Requiring the balance of market and affordable housing to be calculated by reference to such detailed calculations as floorspace will inevitably result in a reduction in the quality of placemaking.