Planning - Summary of all comments - Amazon Web Services

357 Ms V O'Malley
Affordable housing IS a major issue, at least 50% of new homes built should be cheaper accommodation for the many
single people and the growing older population, who will be moving into smaller more manageable properties.
358 Mr & Mrs England 40% is fine. If you build new town at Rawreth rather than more estates you can build a selection of different housing.
Affordable housing is essential. 40% looks reasonable for a large site or new town. ? On small sites is likely to be a bad
359 Mr New
use of space.
The RSS14 requires that district affordable housing policies will not be less than 30% and should aspire to 40%. In order for
the affordable housing policies not to stifle the delivery of affordable housing, in all new developments a requirement of
30% should be set (ie not just allocated sites). The Council will need to ensure that all requirements for affordable housing
are considered in the light of site specific criteria and if a case for less affordable housing is pursued that the lower level of
affordable housing is linked to a financial appraisal. On rural exception sites, it is not considered sound to require all units
to be affordable, this may not be a viable option and therefore the provision of affordable housing should be linked to an
362 Ms M Power
assessment of the site location, character and viability considerations.
365 Mrs H J Springham 40% seems too high.
366 Mr S J Springham
40% of housing to be 'affordable' is too great by a massive factor. There cannot be 40% requirement for essential services
personnel who cannot afford better housing - lobby the government to increase essential services personnel salaries.
In view of our comments above it is difficult to answer these other sections. The south east in general is over developed
369 Mr & Mrs Gauden and overcrowded. There should be a complete block on further building.
Surely it should be the young professionals, tradesmen and families that we should be trying to encourage into the area. It
seems that the new developments in our existing towns demand such a high premium, which makes them unaffordable to
the people that we need in the area. Therefore over-development in our existing towns is not the answer to affordable
housing. The most obvious way to achieve affordable housing in this area would be to create a new town and to cap the
prices that developers could charge. This may also discourage the large, national, profiteering developers and give more of
370 Mr G Biner
a change to local smaller companies and trades people.
371 Swanton Yes - more housing to rent