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?: No

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:

The Committee considered the report of the Head of Planning Service on the findings of a recently commissioned and completed study which has looked at the impact of Affordable Rent, both in terms of what such rent levels could be set at in Sefton and what implications it will have for the Council’s current approved S106 affordable housing negotiating position.

 

RESOLVED: That

 

(1)      the report be noted; and

 

(2)      the proposed minor amendments to the Council’s approved S106 affordable housing negotiating position, as detailed within the report, be endorsed. 

 

Report author: Alan Young

Publication date: 14/02/2012

Date of decision: 08/02/2012

Decided at meeting: 08/02/2012 - Planning Committee

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