9.4 Milestones for Priority 3 - Affordable Housing

Our aim is that by March 2007 we will be in a position where our corporate and partnership arrangements are effectively enabling us to deliver our future target of over 300 affordable housing units per year – both in the major growth areas and in village locations.

Table 19 - Affordable Housing Milestones

#

Milestone

By when

PFH

Responsible Officer

16

Report annually to portfolio holder on arrangements within the Council for promoting affordable housing and on any obstacles

From

Q2 06

Housing

Denise Lewis

17

Planning service: establish monitoring of affordable housing permissions.

Q2 06

P&ED

Gareth Jones

18

Develop standard S106 Agreements in order to provide greater certainty to developers and speed up the approval process, consistent with a sub-regional approach

Q3 06

P&ED

G Jones/C Tucker

19

With partner authorities in the sub-region, agree and implement new commissioning arrangements to meet housing research requirements

Q3 06

Housing

Denise Lewis

20

Agree a programme for the use of commuted sums for affordable housing development

Q3 06

Housing

Denise Lewis

21

Agree split between rented and intermediate tenures and selection of RSLs for affordable housing development for Northstowe

Q4 06

Housing

Denise Lewis

22

Complete an appraisal of Council held land and property to identify opportunities for the development of affordable housing, working through RSLs

Q1 07

Housing

Denise Lewis

 

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