Object

Representation ID: 9404

Received: 15/03/2019

Respondent: Mr M Trentham

There are already viability problems on some developments related to the affordable housing requirement.
The Council is deliberately seeking to increase such problems by being too greedy. It is unreasonable to expect that affordable (i.e. subsidised) housing should be of the same size or standard as market housing. The current method of measuring the requirement as a straight percentage of unit numbers is simple and effective.
Such rules might produce the opposite result from that intended, i.e. rather than building more small market homes, developers will build fewer but larger affordable dwellings, in order to preserve the profitability.