Affordable housing requirements could be scrapped for smaller developments under plans being explored by the levelling up secretary.
Simon Clarke has written to the prime minister Liz Truss with a series of proposals designed to boost development and drive economic growth. Among them is a move to raise the threshold at which affordable housing must be provided from developments with 10 homes to 40 or even 50 homes.
This would reduce the number of affordable homes built by up to a fifth, but the government believes it would provide a boost to small and medium-sized developers. The Competition and Markets Authority will conduct a review to ensure that house-building is “genuinely competitive”.
Clarke is also believed to be keen end the moratorium on the construction of 100,000 homes in parts of Norfolk, Hampshire, Devon and the North East, designed to protect the health and biodiversity of wetland.
Other proposals include abandoning plans to scrap no-fault evictions and an extension to permitted development orders.
