Decision details

Future Housing Requirements - The Scope for Affordable Rent in Sefton

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

To (i) seek endorsement for the recently commissioned study on “Future Housing Requirements: Scope for Affordable Rent in Sefton” undertaken and completed by Richard Fordham and Company and Fordham Research; and (ii) approval to minor changes to the Council’s current section 106 affordable housing negotiating position.

Decisions:

Further to Minute No. 144 of the meeting of the Planning Committee held on 8 February 2012, the Cabinet considered the report of the Director of Built Environment and the Head of Planning Services on the findings of a recently commissioned and completed study which had looked at the impact of Affordable Rent, both in terms of what rent levels could be set at in Sefton and what implications it would have for the Council’s current approved Section 106 affordable housing negotiating position.

 

This was a Key Decision and was included in the Council’s Forward Plan of Key Decisions.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the minor amendments to the Council’s approved Section 106 affordable housing negotiating position be approved and they be applied to all relevant planning applications received after the date of approval of this proposed policy change.

Report author: Alan Young

Publication date: 06/03/2012

Date of decision: 01/03/2012

Decided at meeting: 01/03/2012 - Cabinet

Effective from: 14/03/2012

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