A study carried out by housing charity Shelter and the
Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) found that developers wriggled out of
providing 938 affordable homes in eight rural councils in 2015/16 using
viability testing. Researchers sifted through planning documents from 154
applications where 1,966 homes were initially supposed to be affordable.
Viability assessments allow developers to limit their contributions to
infrastructure and affordable housing by demonstrating that to do so would not
guarantee them “competitive returns”. They are generally not disclosed to the
public, though a number of councils have started forcing developers to publish
the documents. Read more on the CPRE
website.
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