Oxford City Council has warned that the city could lose out on hundreds of new council houses due to changes in the national framework which guides planning policy.
LocalGov writes:
Over the last six years the council has required all housing developments of four or more homes to contribute 15% from the sale price to the public purse after the houses had been sold. The money was then ring-fenced for council housing. The Government’s new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), however, means that only housing developments of 10 or more homes should include affordable housing or have to make a financial contribution to the local authority for council housing….
Council leader Susan Brown said she would be writing to the secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, Robert Jenrick MP, to call for the Government’s NPPF to be amended. ‘This is utterly frustrating and hugely disappointing. This new Government policy takes no account of local circumstances faced by a constrained City like ourselves,’ said Cllr Alex Hollingsworth, cabinet member for planning…
