Affordable housing on a ‘rural exception’ site in the village of Plaxtol, Kent Affordable housing is an essential part of equitable planning and development but often treated as an afterthought. Green Balance has worked extensively to promote affordable housing in planning policy, particularly with the National Housing Federation (NHF) – the trade body representing the Housing Associations who provide it. We first represented the NHF with written and oral evidence to the South East Regional Plan in 1999. Here we persuaded the Examination Panel to accept over half the 25 changes we proposed to the Plan, and some others in part. These included changes now widely accepted as good practice, such as: housing requirements should be calculated from demographic changes, not revised downwards to re

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