Private developers are tearing up agreed planning applications to submit new ones with lower affordable homes quotas in a bid to take advantage of a council policy. In February this year, the executive board of Leeds Council changed the requirements for affordable housing for developers. The council split the city into five areas with four of them having reduced quotas for affordable housing. Outer and inner suburbs both had quotas slashed in half – from 30 per cent to 15 per cent – while only outer area/rural north experienced a raise – from 30 per cent to 35 per cent. The measures were meant to encourage developers to build more, but have actually resulted in some throwing out agreed applications and putting in new ones with smaller numbers of affordable homes. Read more on Inside Housing.
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