Rule Changes 'Risk New Social Housing Black Hole' In England

A proposal designed to speed up the creation of new homes in England risks “supercharging” a get-out clause allowing developers to build properties without providing social housing, the charity Shelter has said. The government has proposed new rules that would allow builders to buy and demolish commercial buildings and create new homes without planning permission. The plan would extend permitted development rights, which allow the conversion of office buildings to homes. The rules have also allowed developers to build tiny homes, some as small as 13 sq metres. Almost one in 10 new homes created last year were created this way. Read more on the Guardian website.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/13/government-rules-risk-black-hole-in-social-housing-affordable-homes