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Publication Draft

Representation ID: 66549

Received: 27/06/2014

Respondent: Taylor Wimpey

Agent: Barton Willmore

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Representation Summary:

Policy H2 should be re-worded in order to clarify that the overall requirement of 40% affordable housing can be reduced based on viability. In its current form the policy appears to allow for the: form of provision of affordable housing; location on the site of affordable housing; and the means of delivery of affordable housing to be subject to negotiation at the time of a planning application, and it states that the viability of the development will be a consideration in such negotiations.
However, this does not clearly state that the actual proportion of affordable housing can be negotiated based on the viability of a site, which when considered against paragraph 173 of the NPPF is something which a developer should clearly be capable of doing.

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