Core Strategy Submission Document

Object

Representation ID: 16004

Received: 28/10/2009

Respondent: Shelter

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Shelter objects to this Policy for the reason that although paragraph 4.30 recognises and supports the regional requirement for at least 35% of new housing to be affordable this Policy will not achieve this. This is because the Policy only requires 35% of housing to be affordable on developments with 15 or more units. As a result, the lack of any requirement for smaller developments will mean that overall less than 35% of new housing will be affordable. Also, the target needs to take into account those larger developments where for reasons of economic unviabilty the requirement cannot be met.