Housing delivery
Information on policies, investigations and processes for monitoring housing delivery.
The amount of affordable housing in Southwark
To find out how many affordable homes are in Southwark (excluding our own), we audit registered providers of affordable housing in Southwark every year.
We did our first audit in 2016 and have done it annually since 2021. The annual audit starts in March and covers the previous financial year.
Results are published as soon as a response is received from a registered provider and the data has been validated by council officers. This means the results will update throughout the audit period.
We ask the registered providers for the:
- number of social rented homes
- number of intermediate homes
- number of affordable homes, where the S106 agreement does not specify whether it's social rented or a different affordable tenure
- number of bedrooms in the homes
- number of accessible homes
- rental levels of the affordable homes
- diversity of the people living in the affordable homes
Registered providers must submit the details of each completed affordable home.
They must also submit details of any change in the type of affordable home. For example, if a social rented home changes to another type of housing. Or, if a shared ownership home is now fully owned by the occupant.
New S106 agreement templates require developers to complete the affordable housing annual audit to provide detailed information to the council.