affordable rent

Appeal: 18-storey tower held back by affordable housing agreement

28.02.2020

Matt Moody

affordable housing | affordable rent | building design | Design | Finance & Viability | Housing | tall buildings | unilateral obligation | Yorkshire

An inspector has cited an incomplete ‘bespoke agreement’ for variable affordable housing in refusing plans for an 18-storey tower comprising 151 flats in Leeds, after overturning four of the council’s five...
Appeal: Kensington affordable housing schemes refused in triple inquiry

25.10.2019

Matt Moody

affordable housing | affordable rent | employment zone | Finance & Viability | grade I listed | Heritage | heritage assets | Housing | London | tenure split

After considering three separate proposals to redevelop a brownfield site in West London, an inspector rejected the two that included 100 per cent affordable housing, and granted permission for an office-led...
Appeal: Lack of rent cap guarantee halts Croydon student flats

06.09.2019

Matt Moody

affordable rent | Demographics & Population Growth | Finance & Viability | listed building | London | rent cap | student accommodation

An inspector has blocked plans to convert a listed high street building in Croydon into student accommodation, after the appellant failed to produce a legal agreement that would secure a rent cap for future...
Younger generations now more unlikely to climb the property ladder

01.07.2019

Lydia Till

affordable housing | affordable rent | Economic Growth | England | first-time buyers | Housing | Local Government Association | young people

Young people today are ‘half as likely’ to own a home as they were 20 years ago, while existing homeowners are finding it harder to move, according to a report by the Local Government Association (LGA).
Councils call for joined-up legislation to protect renters

10.04.2017

Laura Edgar

affordable rent | England | Housing | lga | local authorities | Planning Law | rent

The Local Government Association (LGA) has called on the government to close a legal loophole that allows landlords to convert properties into multiple “tiny units” marked as self-contained flats to secure the maximum level of housing benefit payments.
First UK rent-to-buy scheme agreed

02.12.2015

Laura Edgar

affordable rent | Housing | Persimmon Homes | rent to buy | rentplus | South West

An agreement has been reached that will see the UK’s first affordable rent-to-buy houses built in Plymouth.
Developers revealed for rent scheme

18.09.2014

Laura Edgar

affordable rent | Greater London Authority | Housing | London | Pontoon Dock | private rent | Silvertown Way

Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has announced the developers for a “groundbreaking’ private rent homes scheme.