What's with the x% of new houses assigned to social housing?

Cambridgeshire just goes to show how flawed our planning process is, the A10 and A14 just can't cope with the traffic they have today, how they keep getting permission to build more and more houses with the current infrastructure beats the **** out of me!
 
Hertfordshire is just as bad, the A1(M) can't cope at all with the traffic now but the government still want to build around 10,000 new homes to the west of Stevenage (as well as the hindreds/thousands around the edges).
 
Well I suppose that will help them introduce "congestion charging" so they can fleece us for the cheek of using our cars to go to work at "peak times"!
 
Is this new social housing scheme only in England? My parents recently moved into a brand new house and as far as I am aware, all of the properties built by their developer were bought. There are some smaller houses within their development, but even they are well kept, which would imply they are all owned.

I know that there have been some properties built specifically for council tennants in the town where I grew up, but they are in the middle of an existing council estate, well away from all of the new builds.
 
Yeah I beleive us peasants call it "rush hour", there's another one at the end of the day as well but I'm too busy drinking PIMM's to notice ;)
 
I meant daylight hours. ;)

But yes I never have a problem, I always have Rodger to give me a ride on his chopper if I need to go anywhere..
 
My Dad's a housebuilder (albeit a slow one - we manage about 4 bungalows a year!). He has to give every 12th house at cost price to the Council.
 
Vote UKIP.

Conservative are as **** as layabout labour.
Personally I reckon they should put any working class man with common sense in power for a day and instantaneously the only people complaining would be politicians and scummers.
 
Yup, friend was moving and looked at a new development (4/500k'ish) but this was the one reason they didn't buy/reserve a house; a few in the development were to be given as council houses and they didn't know which ones.
So they could have spent 500k of their hard-earned on a nice new house, and then find out that next door was one of the Chav houses.
 
Planning Authorities all have thresholds for "affordable housing" but it is down to the individual local authority to determine how they use it and in many cases how they define it. It is handled as part of the planning process, usually via a Section 106 legal agreement.

For example, the estate I live on has about 20 affordable houses/flats on it - these are shared ownership, some 80% owner 20% council, some 50/50 with no rent on the Council element. Most are owned by young working families and are distributed throughout the estate. Causes no problems at all.

Dwellings allocated as affordable housing will be in the planning application which is a matter of public record so you can easily find out which plots will be.

Putting all of the affordable housing in a development together is very poor planning.

Developers can, and often do, commute their affordable housing obligation and pay the local authority money to build or acquire affordable housing in other areas.
 
For the affordable housing you normally have to meet a certain criteria, one of which is not being a scroat. Remeber the occupier still has to mortgage at least half the house, so they must have a job at least
 
Only housing built by housing association have to do this, i've done projects for private developers that is just that, all private.
 
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Sounds more like Dementors to me.
 
Don't know a great deal about York, but people in need here never seem to be able to get housing, not even temporarily for a few months. The problem is long-term occupants on income support taking up more and more of the stock...
 
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