Minimum affordable housing proportion and rounding

Policy HOU5 requires a minimum of 20% of units to be provided as affordable housing. This falls significantly short of the actual affordable housing need in Belfast and, as such, should be considered a minimum. Therefore, where 20% of the total number of units would result in a fraction of a unit, this should be rounded up to the nearest whole unit as a minimum, which will help to maximise the overall number of housing units delivered in total. This approach is illustrated in Figure 3.2 below.