Affordable Housing Threshold

Policy DM 17 requires a proportion of affordable housing to be included on all sites where 40 housing units or greater are proposed. The policy requires, as a minimum, that 10% of these units are required to be provided as affordable housing. The Council will be alert to and not supportive of proposals which seek to avoid the requirements of the policy, by being artificially sub-divided to be less than the 40-unit threshold, when they would otherwise be proposed as larger schemes above the threshold. The Council will consider site capacity of a proposal and whether it makes optimum use of the land available.