THE Planning White Paper, “Planning For the future” published by the government proposes to sweep away the discretion of local councils and impose house building numbers determined by a new algorithm.
Areas with a large gap between incomes and house prices will have large increases in house building forced on them. In the most extreme case a tripling of the building volume currently allowed. At the same time the government proposes to eliminate the requirement for affordable homes on all schemes with less than 40 new dwellings.
It is widely recognised there is an acute shortage of affordable housing for local […]
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