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308 The Occupier
There is no such thing as "affordable housing" as the market forces will take the housing to the level the market will take it.
What is needed are the funds to promote co-ownership. In this a person can get a mortgage for say half the house and pay
interest on the other half as a sort of rental. The person is responsible for the house and shares any price increase
proportionally.
309 Mr J Smith This is not a major issue most people are required to make sacrifices in order to buy property.
There are plenty of redundant properties and industrial premises which could be turned into affordable housing. If house
prices hadn't been allowed to get out of control in the first place affordable housing would not be an issue now. Again the
310 Chris Teeder
area is over developed already and has not got the infrastructure to take any more people and cars.
Yes - how on earth can our young people get on the housing ladder without going into debt and landing in council property -
311 Mrs P A Watson Jones at a greater cost to the rate payers.
Affordable Housing Probable Option (p28) : The provision of affordable housing is supported, however there is no logic in
seeking 40% affordable housing from allocated sites and 30% from ‘windfall sites’. A clearer and more logical option would
be to seek to achieve 35% from all sites (other than rural exception sites). The policy also needs to make it clear that the
actual percentage of affordable housing will be set by reference to the characteristics of each site, the economics of
313 Mr B Sellwood
bringing that site forward and the availability of public grant.
Yes affordable housing should be a major issue, council's should give a mortgage to the poorer paid with a slightly lower
interest rate to get these young people on the property market, like the council did in 1989, at that time it helped a lot of
314 Mrs C Quennell young people, my husband was a poorly paid farmer, that is how we got onto the property market.
A sustainable community is the way forward. 40% is too high as a target and out of keeping with the environment.
315 R A Stone
Affordable housing is not, in my opinion, a significant issue compared with major cities.
316 Ms S Copeman Yes so why are so many expensive retirement flats being built?
317 Mr D Harris Surely expert analysis is available.
318 Ms W Hatton Yes it’s a major issue. Should aim higher as it will always increase.
319 Mr M Lang If houses are built down here they should be a very high number of affordable housing (but not apartments).
320 J Feather You need more affordable housing but then should not be restricted to just key workers. First time buyers need help.
Who gets affordable housing - if first time buyers from any background then fine but not restricting to certain employments.
321 R J Feather
10-20% more realistic.
323 Mr T Beebee No more than 20% in each development. No allowance for travellers and Gypsy's.
325 Mr D Elwell
326 Owner/Occupier
The issue of affordable housing is exasperated by the increasing number of imigrants being allowed into the country and the
area by central government. Also travellers intimidate local authorities by unauthorised development in green belt areas.
Affordable housing is an issue for certain elements but I reiterate no development of any description should be permitted.
Should generally be aiming formore affordable housing, but the quality of those developments is important (eg high density
housing such as flats can bring its own problems such as a lack of safe areas for children to play). I think maybe house
prices have been pushed up by financial institutions willingness to lend too much - this is something out of the control of
local government.