Decision details
Affordable Housing Policy Review
Decision Maker: Executive - for meetings from 03/06/00 to 26/04/11
Decision status: Decision Made
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
Review report will look at the availability of
affordable and social housing and the effectiveness of the 50 per
cent affordability planning rule.
Decision:
RESOLVED: (i) That the findings of the Affordable Housing Policy Review be noted.
(ii) That the view that the most appropriate forum to understand, discuss and revise affordable housing policy in the City is through the LDF programme and, specifically, the preparation of the Core Strategy, be endorsed.
(iii) That the information contained in the Affordable Housing Review report be fed into the LDF policy review process.
(iv) That Officers be requested to arrange meetings at a senior level with developers, Housing Associations, professional agencies, commercial property companies and other relevant stakeholders, including Central Government, to consider how the City can provide more affordable housing for rent, for shared ownership, to buy, and also to explore other methods of delivering social and family housing.
REASON: To maximise opportunities for providing more affordable, decent homes in York.
Publication date: 18/12/2007
Date of decision: 18/12/2007
Decided at meeting: 18/12/2007 - Executive - for meetings from 03/06/00 to 26/04/11
Effective from: 21/12/2007
Accompanying Documents:
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