Cambridge City Council has produced a draft Affordable Housing Supplementary Planning Document (SPD).
The draft Affordable Housing SPD will help all parties involved (such as the council, developers, landowners and registered providers) deliver affordable housing through new development. The draft SPD has been prepared to support Policy No. 45: Affordable housing and dwelling mix as set out in the Cambridge Local Plan 2014: Proposed Submission (and amended by the Addendum to the Cambridge Local Plan 2014 Proposed Submission Document (July 2013): Schedule of Proposed Changes Following Proposed Submission Consultation (February 2014)).
The draft SPD was approved for consultation at Development Plan Scrutiny Sub-Committee on 25 March 2014. Consultation ran from 9am on Monday 2 June 2014 to 5pm on Monday 14 July 2014. The Council is assessing responses to the consultation and awaiting the results of the Local Plan Examination before further work on the document can be undertaken.
Consultation on the draft Planning Obligations Strategy SPD also took place at the same time.
Consultation
The consultation on the draft Affordable Housing SPD ran from 9am on Monday 2 June to 5pm on Monday 14 July 2014.
You can view responses to the draft Affordable Housing SPD by visiting our online consultation system.
Further information
In addition to the draft SPD, Dixon Searle Partnership provided the council with recommendations for calculating affordable housing contributions through their paper.
The current SPD
Our current Affordable Housing Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) (2008) outlines our objectives to deliver affordable housing in Cambridge. Housing must meet housing needs and contribute to the creation and maintenance of sustainable, inclusive and mixed communities. The document provides a framework for the negotiation of planning obligations for the provision of affordable housing in Cambridge. It will ensure that 40% of the buildings in new housing developments over a certain size are classed 'affordable'. The affordable housing SPD provides for both rented housing at affordable rents and for low-cost home ownership. We officially adopted the Affordable Housing Supplementary Planning Document on 14 January 2008 at Environment Scrutiny Committee.