Supplementary planning documents (SPDs)

Draft Affordable housing SPD for consultation

We are consulting on a draft Affordable housing SPD. This is proposed to replace the 2008 adopted SPD and the 2011 draft SPD. The consultation was agreed at Cabinet on 22 July 2024.  

View the consultation

The consultation will close on 27 November 2024.

View the supporting documents for the SPD:

• Cabinet report 
• Consultation plan 
• Equality impact and needs analysis 

Current Affordable housing SDP

Our Affordable housing SPD sets out our approach to securing affordable housing as part of residential development.

Households with incomes of between £60,000 and £90,000 have needs that can be met through shared ownership homes (provided the market value does not exceed £600,000).

We only consider shared ownership housing for households with incomes near local thresholds:

• 1, 2, 3 and 4-bedroom units to be affordable to households with total incomes of £52,825, £62,416, £72,454 and £82,170 respectively
• no more than 40% of their net income is spent on mortgage, rent and service charges
• net income is 70% of gross income

View the supporting documents for the SPD below:

• Affordable Housing SPD consultation report
• Affordable Housing SPD equalities impact assessment
• Affordable Housing SPD sustainability appraisal
• List of registered affordable housing providers