Will NPPF Ensure Delivery Of Genuinely Affordable Housing?

The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has questioned ministers ahead of the publication of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) about whether the new system will do enough to ensure the country gets more genuinely affordable housing rather than profitable ‘executive housing’ beyond the reach of most of those in housing need.  At the heart of the Government's NPPF are plans to introduce a 'presumption in favour of sustainable development', which obliges councils to say 'yes' to development except where "this would compromise key sustainable development principles set out in national planning policy".  It also introduces neighbourhood plans - which will work alongside existing local authority plans - allowing local people to decide where new homes should go and what green spaces should be protected.  Read more on the CPRE website.