The definition of “affordable housing” must include homes
for social rent in forthcoming government changes to planning policy to tackle
the historic low numbers of social rented homes across the country according to
the Local Government Association. The LGA warns that homes specifically for
social rent are at risk of being eliminated after a revision to the National
Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) dropped the reference to “social rent” homes from
the Government’s definition of affordable homes, whilst including Starter Homes
and other, less genuinely affordable, forms of housing. It comes amid an
already “unprecedented shortage” in affordable housing with the supply of homes
for social rent, which provides secure tenancies on low rents, at a historic
low. Read more on the LGA website.
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