Written questions

Affordable Housing: Construction

Commons · Question 21951 · Tabled 3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 13 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Ben Maguire

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of legislating to increase the minimum percentage of affordable housing requirement when hew housing developments are (

Answer

Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 13 Jan 2025

The golden rules introduced through the revised National Planning Policy Framework published on 12 December 2024 require that development on the Green Belt delivers 15 percentage points more affordable housing than the existing local plan affordable housi...