Comment

Representation ID: 19764

Received: 30/01/2009

Respondent: East Sussex County Council

Key to the pressing need for the District to provide affordable housing is the issue of viability and ability of developers to deliver the percentages of affordable housing proposed in the Core Strategy.
The County Council would wish to maintain its engagement with the District Council on this matter.
Clarification is sought on the statement at paragraph 10.28 where a small amount of market housing, effectively to incentivise the development of affordable housing allocations in the rural areas would be appropriate. It is not clear whether this is a reference to exception sites or not. Structure Plan saved policy H5 and Planning Policy Statement 3 (Housing) state that rural exception sites for affordable housing must not contain an element of market housing.