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5.0 Affordable Housing Requirements 5.1 Definition of Affordable Housing Scottish Planning Policy (SPP) broadly defines affordable housing as housing of a reasonable quality that is affordable to people on modest incomes. In some places the market provides some or all of the affordable housing needed, while in other places it will be necessary to make housing available at a cost below market value to meet an identified need. A range of tenure types can contribute to affordable housing as detailed in PAN 2/2010 and these are detailed below. Social rented Subsidised low cost housing for sale including discounted sale, shared ownership and shared equity Unsubsidised low cost housing for sale including entry level housing and shared equity Mid-market or intermediate rented A more detailed list of categories of housing which are recognised as being affordable can be found in Section 8. 5.2 Percentage Requirements The Affordable Housing Policy requirements will apply to all applications for planning permission for housing development. It is Fife Council’s intention that this Guidance and the Development Plan policies should speed up the planning application process by clarifying the affordable housing requirements in order that they are an integral part of development proposals from the outset. Policy H4 of the approved Fife Structure Plan 2006 - 2026 (Appendix A) sets out the Council’s main policy for the provision of affordable housing through the land use planning system. Site specific policy advice is being set out through the three emerging Local Plans. The requirements are set out below. At Housing Market Area (HMA) level, the following overall requirements apply: HMA Dunfermline Sub Areas 25% Kelty 5% Benarty 5% Lochgelly 5% Cowdenbeath 5% Cupar 20% St Andrews 30% Kirkcaldy 10% Methil 5% Buckhaven 5% Kirkcaldy 15% 12
A map showing the geographic application of the various percentage requirements is shown in Appendix B. These requirements will not be sought from sites solely for affordable housing. It was planned to undertake a review of the above requirements through the Structure Plan Action Plan, and based on the Housing Needs and Demand Assessment (HNDA) however this has been postponed as the housing market is still recovering very slowly from the recent and very severe economic recession and will continue to do so for some time to come. Levels of housebuilding have declined significantly. In some cases, percentage requirements would have increased substantially and in the present economic climate this would have been unsustainable. A review of the percentage requirements will however be undertaken when the circumstances are appropriate. The Structure Plan Action Plan does however propose to waive contributions on very small sites. Therefore contributions will not be required on very small sites below 5 total housing units in capacity. The total housing units are comprised of the market housing units and the affordable housing units. 5.3 Calculation of the Percentage Requirements In setting the original percentage requirements in Policy H4 of the approved Structure Plan, account was taken of the advice contained in PAN 74. The first stage of the calculation process was to undertake a new housing needs study in 2004 to quantify the level of need. Firstly, the future housing land requirement and supply was then identified from the Fife Structure Plan. The second step was to remove from the housing land requirement figures any sites benefiting from planning consent (outline or detailed) as at 1 April 2005. Thirdly, small sites were removed from the two East Fife HMAs (as small sites traditionally comprise a significant proportion of the housing land supply in these areas). On this basis, the following percentages were calculated: St Andrews HMA 52% Cupar HMA 19% Kirkcaldy HMA 9% Dunfermline HMA 27% These percentages were then amended in the light of other factors. It is common practice in expressing such requirements, to round them to the nearest 5%, in the interest of simplicity. Therefore: St. Andrews HMA: The St Andrews Housing Market Area was found to have the highest relative level of need in Fife, and this was reflected in the award of Pressured Area Status to the town and surrounding area, which is in the 13
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