Friday 31 July 2015

Charity Calls for S106 Changes to Ensure More Affordable Homes

Viability assessment guidelines should be introduced to make it more difficult for developers to reduce affordable housing in planning agreements, top research charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has proposed. It has published a report on planning obligations (s106 agreements) which concluded that recent changes to the planning system have made it more difficult for planning agreements to ensure homes are built for those on the lowest incomes. The charity argued that the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), introduced by the coalition government, has led to negative impacts, including a greater emphasis on viability assessments, giving developers more ability to renegotiate agreements if they can show they make the scheme unworkable.  Download the report from the JRF website.

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