Past the first round
Harnett, Mark
Past the first round - 2005 - Estates Gazette (0528) 16 July 2005, 116-117(2) .
Looks at government reliance on the private sector and the planning system to increase delivery of social housing. Discusses developers' frustration at the often rigid approach adopted by local authorities when negotiating how housing is to be delivered given that Circular 6/98, the principle source of advice on affordable housing, stipulates that they should not be prescriptive about affordable housing tenure. Reports on the 2004 Goldcrest Homes' planning appeal, which ruled that local authorities were not entitled to insist on nomination rights. However the draft update to PPG3 issued in 2005 proposes cancelling Circular 6/98 advice on tenure, defining affordable housing as social-rented housing and intermediate housing, proportions of each category being determined by planning authorities in their local development documents. Concludes that the view that affordable housing should be provided without any public subsidy is becoming increasingly common but the ability of developers to contribute to affordable housing is becoming severely constrained.
Affordable housing
Past the first round - 2005 - Estates Gazette (0528) 16 July 2005, 116-117(2) .
Looks at government reliance on the private sector and the planning system to increase delivery of social housing. Discusses developers' frustration at the often rigid approach adopted by local authorities when negotiating how housing is to be delivered given that Circular 6/98, the principle source of advice on affordable housing, stipulates that they should not be prescriptive about affordable housing tenure. Reports on the 2004 Goldcrest Homes' planning appeal, which ruled that local authorities were not entitled to insist on nomination rights. However the draft update to PPG3 issued in 2005 proposes cancelling Circular 6/98 advice on tenure, defining affordable housing as social-rented housing and intermediate housing, proportions of each category being determined by planning authorities in their local development documents. Concludes that the view that affordable housing should be provided without any public subsidy is becoming increasingly common but the ability of developers to contribute to affordable housing is becoming severely constrained.
Affordable housing