The Isle of Wight Council is inviting comments on a draft Housing Affordability Supplementary Planning Document (SPD), with a view to formally adopting it to use in planning decision making.
The draft Housing Affordability SPD updates what information needs to be considered in planning applications that are required to provide affordable housing.
Since the adoption of the Island Plan Core Strategy in 2012, which includes the current affordable housing policy DM4, national planning policy guidance on affordable housing has been revised.
Locally, updated evidence has been collected that reflects the significant changes in the housing market on the Island in recent years.
While a new affordable housing policy can only be agreed through the Draft Island Planning Strategy (draft IPS) — which is currently paused awaiting changes to national policy — it is considered that the Housing Affordability SPD will update and clarify how policy DM4 is used when making decisions on planning applications until such time as the draft IPS is adopted.
Councillor Ian Stephens, Cabinet member for housing, said:
“The housing market on the Island has changed dramatically over the past couple of years and even more so since our current affordable housing policy was adopted in 2012.”
“The Housing Affordability SPD will allow us to ensure that any affordable housing that is provided through the planning system is focused on the types of affordable homes we desperately need locally.”
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The purpose of the SPD is to provide clear guidance on the types of affordable housing most needed on the Island, as well as the target mix — with a clear focus on social and affordable rented properties.
The draft SPD also details the data sources to be used when identifying what local affordable housing requirements are in a particular part of the Island, with an emphasis on using up-to-date local housing needs surveys where they have been carried out.
The document also provides an outline of the how the affordable housing process works from planning permission through to the occupation of homes.
Councillor Paul Fuller, Cabinet member for planning, said:
“In advance of the Draft IPS moving forward, it was felt important to include new guidance supporting housing that residents could truly afford.”
“We believe this SPD can provide a stepping stone that focuses on the Island affordable housing that is desperately needed for our residents. To support this please let us know what you think through this consultation.”
The draft Housing Affordability SPD is available to view and download on our website, along with further information relating to the consultation.
A questionnaire can be filled in online, or alternatively comments can be submitted by email to [email protected] or by post to Planning Services, Seaclose Office, Fairlee Road, Newport, PO30 2QS.
Copies of the documents and large print questionnaires are also available to view at County Hall and Seaclose office (from Monday 19th June). The closing date for comments is Friday 28th July 2023.
There is no shortage of houses on the Island.
The problem is there is a shortage of homes because of empty properties and holiday homes.
It is not economically viable to build 1 and 2 bed low cost housing on the Island due to the cost of bring materials over from the mainland. 3 and 4 bedroom properties make more financial sense. And there lies the problem.
What a silly comment. The materials cost the same to bring over whether you use them to builld 1/2 bed houses or 3/4 bed houses.
The “cost per brick” (and other similar items) is the same but you do not use twice the number for a 4 bed house as you do for a 2 bed house. I would have thought that would have been obvious. The comment by Colin Sharpe about shipping costs is, therefore, perfectly valid.
You are wrong Ivor. A two-bedroom house would generally contain small rooms and be in a terrace or semi-detached, so the cost is actually cheaper because a three-bed or four-bed is much more likely to be detached with large rooms and more expensive to build per sq foot (more “bricks” or similar items). A two-bed in a terrace can be built as cheaply as £50k (more likely £100k) whereas a detached four bed would cost £200k. You obviously also need to consider the cost of the plot and location.
I feel we need less affordable and certainly far less social housing as it is usually the poor who are anti social, swindling the system, having vile troubled feral children from puberty onwards, drug dealing and driving like maniacs when drunk and drugged up
They cost us the most and are the worst types to have here.
We need more expensive homes with decent civilised people who can fully fund what they breed for once and who are wanted for the child not the lazy lifestyle they bring
Don’t judge everyone the same, I’m not on benefits, I worked for 45 years, and many people do work and claim benefits as low paid especially on the Isle of Wight
Bitter and twisted much?
And will this council, who recently patted themselves on the back, telling us we should have every confidence in them, take on board our views?? Some how I doubt that very much.
It’s really simple. No more houses! We don’t want any more poors
More lifestyle discipline and behavior correction for some of the worst elements of ‘social housing’ and possible adjustment and review of benefits and tenancy arrangements, etc. When basic norms and standards don’t improve.
It is not affordable housing, it is FREE housing for the smack/swill/snort brigade with free council tax and free handouts, claiming for PIP and disabled benefits for the side effects that their deliberately self inflicted habit is causing, while genuine sick and disabled people are getting their benefits stopped. It’s time for the DWP to separate the two and stop the payments of those getting away with taking the piss out of the system, that is of course, if there is anyone with the balls to question it. A good many of them are claiming more in benefits than a workman’s take home wages who is struggling to survive. If there must be free housing, build them for working families and NHS workers who are at least making contributions.
I was born on the island I Joined the army and served my country, but I still need social housing, so does that make me a degenerate and waste of space. it males me sick that the Island I grew up in has become so stuck up with Grockels coming over here and having no respect to natural born Caulkheads. you might be able to afford a big house, but there are many like me who can’t. get a life and look in the real world and see the real people like me.
so does that make me a degenerate and waste of space says chas…
that depends greatly upon why you left the army, what you are doing now and what circumstances have you created for yourself to justify a need to sponge off the taxpayer.
natural born caulkheads don’t like benefit spongers either.
I served my time in the forces and then worked in the NHS, until I became disabled, I payed my taxes and every due to the UK Gov, I am now retired. I hope that every one here has no need to claim PIPS or other benefit in the future, because if you do that will make you the same as those you despise those with cancer multiple sclerosis and other disabilities people cannot see, but suffer daily with pain and sickness.
There is one simple problem with all benefits, and it is not that in many cases they are not well deserved, its primarily because they are not policied, DSS staff just rubber stamp apllications and hope someone else will pick up any obvious fraud or that people will shop them then they may do something about it, every application for benefits should come with a full social media examination, that bad back or dodgy hips application is easily checked against their skiing or bodyboarding on their last holiday , the unable to walk anywhere brigade can be checked against dvla to see if they have a car, listen to the talk at the playground gate at end of chool day, there is active discussions on how to screw more money out of the system.
The problem in the current society
Persons have children by any Tom, Dick or Harry just to get on the
Benefit Ladder for life.
Simple answer is don’t give them any benefits, let them live with their
parents.
In today’s world it’s to easy.
Drop your drawers and you are made for life, compliments of us the tax payers.
It would be interesting to know how many unmarried Mums there are
on the Island claiming benefits.
Surely the Fathers of the children should provide for them, they done the deed.
Makes me wonder if some of the Mums even know who the Fathers are!
The Benefit system is a joke.
What a shocking state of affairs we live in.
If you cannot afford to have children don’t have them in the first place.
One way to stop the Drawers dropping
Drop the benefits.
The problem is “children” are having children,
hence the problem.
Many of the parents cannot look after themselves, yet alone
their children.
So they expect the state to look after them.
Money for nothing and a free home.
If the Father of the family kids leaves the family for any reason or other he is made by law to support those kids. If the Father of any kids who decides not to any responsibility of those kids because he is a free loader on benefits he gets away with it. The Child Support Agency do not bother chasing them up because they don’t know who he is. Another one rule one rule farce victimizing the ones they know. Another have a deliberate brat to get a free house scam not being questioned by the DWP to claim benefits
A lot of misogyny on here today…
Bring back Chastity belts that’s will solve the breeding problem.
Well said Chas
I understand how you feel reading some of the comments which are factually based in a lot of cases but contibutors are tarring all with the same brush, as someone whom is ex military you and your family should automatically jump to the head of any queue, I notice the govenrment has just had to issue housing advice to councils that local Uk born people should not come below immigrantson the housing ladder which is something a lot believed was happening but never had any acceptance of from councils.
Many Caulkheads are jealous of Grockels
I put it down to being narrow minded and many Caulkheads have not seen or lived in the real world.
Living on the Island all these years with not a care/worry in the world.
Thank you for your service and looking after the UK
People like you should not have to scrape
You moaners will be grateful for all the “breeders” in a few years when you are in need of a carer due to disability and dementia.
Most Carers I have seen are overweight and smoke like chimneys,
most of them cannot look after themselves yet alone someone else.
What a truly ludicrous comment. Probably based on a sample size of one! My more comprehensive sample of three found the opposite to be true.
Have you not seen them, bursting out of their uniforms, many nurses
are the same.
Florence Nightingale is probably turning in her grave.
Correct.
Who in the past have not been advised by an unfit NHS employee
stating that they should eat less and give up smoking!
That is great coming from an overweight smoker themselves.
You are obviously an overweight smoker as well as bitter and twisted.
Don’t smoke don’t drink, waste of money
Also keep fit cycling unlike many others
I feel most sorry for the bigots on here.
Agree. There are some really shocking people on here today!
So, you don’t agree that’s there’s a whole class of people who simply live on benefits?
It’s a bit difficult to argue against that viewpoint as it’s widely accepted and easily proven, which is why words like ‘bigot’ get thrown around so much in cases like this. If you can’t argue your case, resort to calling people names.
I can remember Gordon Brown falling for this too and calling a woman a bigot because she didn’t share his view. He was rightly called out for that.
Instead of name-calling, provide an alternative argument and people might take you a bit more seriously.
Like they listen to consultations, lol
100% mortgages would enable lots of people to purchase rather than rely on social housing, its not a home for life as people think, once parents are left in 3 bed properties they should have to downsize, lots of people living in 3 bed properties that dont need them,
This comment is rambling shite. People who own three-bedroom houses can do what they want with them. Do you plan to evict them just because their wife/husband/partner has died?