Wednesday, 6 May 2015

New Minimum Room Sizes Risk Cambridge's Social Housing Supply

A plan to enforce minimum room sizes across the city risks the supply of much-needed affordable housing, it is claimed. Cambridge City Council is considering introducing a rule whereby one-bed accommodation would be no smaller than 37 sq m, which the council says will "encourage provision of enough space in dwellings to ensure that homes can be used flexibly by a range of residents". But local developer Alistair Green claims such a move has already had a direct impact on the provision of the affordable housing he is preparing at a site off Histon Road. Read more on the Cambridge News website.

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