Object
Preferred Options
Representation ID: 46875
Received: 25/07/2012
Respondent: Mr Ken Hope
I am in favour of the building of affordable housing provided that people with Barford connections are given priority when a new tenant is required - in perpetuity. Further, it is inappropriate to give people who only want to live in urban areas priority to live in rural affordable housing. Barford has shown its need for additional affordable houses following each of the five Housing Need Surveys done since the late 1990s. It is currently less than 20 and these may have been provided in the meantime in Wasperton Lane.
Affordable Housing in rural areas should be provided - in perpetuity - for people with local connections. The two previous government administrations specifically helped to retain the community of old villages by
(a) limiting new building sites to numbers of houses for which there is a proven need rather than just building to make up national target numbers.
(b) promoting affordable housing so people could continue to live where they were brought up or where they work. The original policy was that these affordable houses would be primarily available for such people as first priority even for subsequent tenants - in perpetuity. This needs to be re-established. There is no good logic in providing additional affordable rural houses just to make up target numbers.