Housing Affordability and Balanced Communities

Housing Affordability and Balanced Communities

Housing affordability has for a number of years presented a big issue nationally, with demand outstripping supply, leaving a limited choice of genuinely affordable homes and routes to home ownership.

These issues are particularly acute in Herefordshire, where there is a considerable gap between average incomes and property prices, making for a poorer affordability ratio than the national average.

It is important that a genuine range and mix of housing is made available, in order to achieve more balanced and sustainable communities in Herefordshire. This area of planning policy needs to address this by ensuring that new residential developments contribute appropriately to providing a genuine range of sizes, types and tenures that meet the needs of all household types.

The reviewed policy would look to be updated according to most recent data. As well as this proactive house building initiatives could be considered in order to enable the building of more affordable homes within communities.

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