Pepper Potting in Apartment Buildings

In the case of apartment buildings, some mixing of tenures should also be possible, although pepper potting is more easily delivered with intermediate units for sale or rent alongside market units for sale or rent. For social rented housing, management and ownership issues may make full pepper-potting of affordable housing units with private market units in a single apartment development difficult. Nevertheless, pepper potting of intermediate units for rent alongside social housing should be possible (see illustrative examples in Figure 3.5). It should also be noted that that high service charges in a mixed tenure apartment context could make a home, which would otherwise be affordable, unaffordable, and should be avoided. Such issues should be discussed with the relevant RHA where appropriate.