Policy P1 requires you to help provide affordable housing in Southwark. This applies to any application that creates one or more homes.
Where affordable housing cannot be on or off-site, a payment in lieu is usually payable. This payment goes towards the cost of affordable housing in Southwark.
The contribution is at least 35% of the habitable rooms of an entire development. The minimum payments (subject to viability) are:
1. Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Zone 1 and 2:
- 35% at £100,000 per habitable room when a viability appraisal is required
- 40% at £100,000 per habitable room when an application is fast-tracked and no viability appraisal is done
2. Aylesbury Area Action Core. View the Aylesbury Area Action Plan (PDF, 10.5 MB).
- 35% at £100,000 per habitable room when a viability appraisal is required
- 60% at £100,000 per habitable room when an application is fast-tracked and no viability appraisal is done
3. CIL Zone 3
- 35% at £82,000 per habitable room when a viability appraisal is required
- 40% at £82,000 per habitable room when an application is fast-tracked and no viability appraisal is done
Self-build properties anywhere in Southwark
- 35% at £30,000 per habitable room when a viability appraisal is required
- 40% at £30,000 per habitable room when an application is fast-tracked and no viability appraisal is done
You do not need to pay the affordable housing contribution if your development is:
- the replacement of a single-home
- converting 2 or more homes to 1 home (de-conversions)
- extensions to residential buildings or domestic home extensions that do not result in additional homes
- change of use from an HMO (C4) to a dwelling (C3)
- change of use from a dwelling (C3) to an HMO (C4)
- self-build properties unless the property is put on the market within 3 years of being lived in (you will still need to calculate the affordable housing contribution, complete a viability appraisal and a legal agreement)
