47. Do you agree with the suggested option?

Support

Representation ID: 483

Received: 03/08/2010

Respondent: Carole Mulroney

supported - it is important to ensure a range of different types of housing within this category

Object

Representation ID: 630

Received: 07/08/2010

Respondent: Herbert Grove Residents

The Market should create the housing mix.

Comment

Representation ID: 660

Received: 09/08/2010

Respondent: Adult & Community Services Southend-on-Sea Borough Council

Mix of tenure is essential in order to maintain or develop sustainable communities there is now a wider range of affordable housing options including intermediate rent, rent to HomeBuy, HomeBuy and social rent.

Also percentage of social housing differs between areas and would seek to redress the balance in these areas where appropriate.

To achieve this, greater flexibility is required however would want to ensure social rented accommodation is provided where required.

Option to change the definition of the split to 70:30 rented accommodation (incl. social & intermediate products)and shared sale, thereby allowing flexibility within the 70% for agreed tenure split.

Comment

Representation ID: 772

Received: 10/08/2010

Respondent: Burges Estate Residents Association

Page 53. The document makes no mention of the current financial situation and that is understandable. However the financial restraints which will impact on social housing providers are going to make social housing provision very difficult in the short/medium term to the extent that affordable housing tenure is almost an irrelevance. There is no mention otherwise of the whole question of affordable housing and I would have expected some discussion on the matter of on site versus off site provision. In addition the Council will now have to deal very carefully with developers pleading poverty in relation to affordable housing, s106 requirements, etc.

Object

Representation ID: 1013

Received: 20/10/2010

Respondent: Savills

The policy requirement for 70% of all affordable housing provision to be social rented on all sites is too high and inflexible, especially having regard to the flexibility in approach set out in the accompanying text. .
The drafted policy should refer to the need to take into account the findings of an affordable housing toolkit assessment, local conditions (including existing dwelling mix in the locality), levels of affordability, feasibility of delivery and specific site viability when determining the level of social rented housing within any particular development.