tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post5478062046682035169..comments2024-03-28T19:20:52.408+00:00Comments on WEMBLEY MATTERS: Brent Council agrees 7.5% 'affordable' housing for Heron House developmentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-64833839878798789582017-10-12T09:17:05.363+01:002017-10-12T09:17:05.363+01:00Jaine Lunn comments: I will definitely try to att...Jaine Lunn comments: I will definitely try to attend and in the meantime get on to Tokynton councillors. This is particularly disturbing as of where it is located amongst low rise and the oldest little high street in the borough. So much for bidding for culture city nonesense. The work at Brent House development is causing a massive amount of chaos. The traffic management plan is bloody useless. We have HGV's parked on both sides of the high road, and in the bus lane, on the pavements, last week I had 3 parked in my street, on the pavement engines running idling for over 30 minutes at a time. The footprint of the site is so small, they have a huge crane, piling thing, and a minimum of 20 lorries a day picking up rubbish and delivering plant and cement. When Chesterfield House gets going God knows how the high road is going to cope. As I stated before 8 sites within 500 metres of my house. The dust and pollution is so bad I cannot open the windows.Martin Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02194641151012303116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-75152882559389418662017-10-12T08:47:24.118+01:002017-10-12T08:47:24.118+01:00Clearly no one on the planning committee or the of...Clearly no one on the planning committee or the officers give a good god damn about Housing Policy or the buls**t there PR machine puts out to the general public or scrutiny committee. It would seem they just do what they like and are not accountable to anyone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-11682757832337319742017-10-11T17:14:23.001+01:002017-10-11T17:14:23.001+01:00Perhaps members of the Planning Committee (and the...Perhaps members of the Planning Committee (and the Council's Planning Officers) should remind themselves what the Brent Position Statement on Affordable Housing in New Developments (approved by the Committee on 14 October 2015) says. They can read it at:<br />https://www.brent.gov.uk/media/16403193/affordable-housing-statement-nov-2015.pdf<br /><br />Here are a few quotations from that document:<br />'Brent has a significant need for affordable housing.'<br /><br />'Brent’s Core Strategy policy CP2 Population and Housing Growth identifies an overall affordable housing target of 50% of additional dwellings. Consistent with this policy, subject to viability, developments of 10 dwellings or more will be required to provide the maximum amount of affordable housing.'<br /><br />'Notwithstanding the detailed advice provided in the Housing SPG, Brent places great significance on the following aspects in particular when determining planning applications related to housing. These are that the affordable housing proposed:<br />a) meets priority borough needs,<br />b) is designed to a high standard and tenure blind,<br />c) is shown to be the maximum amount that can be achieved.'<br /><br />'... due to the relatively high level of low income households, the priority need in Brent is for affordable housing at rents well below market levels (social and affordable rented). Affordable home ownership and other forms of intermediate affordable housing such as discounted market rents is also a priority as part of a balanced housing offer. Nevertheless in Brent it is less of a priority than social/affordable rented properties. Consequently to best meet needs the Council seeks a<br />70/30 social or affordable rent/shared ownership or intermediate housing split.'<br /><br />'Applicants also have a duty to maximise affordable housing. They should address the issue of affordable housing and show how they are consistent with development plan policy and the Housing SPG within the Design and Access and Planning statements submitted within applications. These should give clear rationale/justification to the amount, size, design,<br />location and tenure of the affordable housing proposed ...'<br /><br />'Developments proposing less than 50% affordable housing will need to be accompanied by an affordable housing viability assessment when seeking to register a planning application.'<br /><br />'In the interests of transparency of decision making, the Council will seek to ensure that as much of any assessment submitted should be available for wider scrutiny by the public.'<br /><br />'An executive summary should outline the main findings in an easily understandable way to make the information more understandable to the general public and decision makers.'<br /><br />If the Council's own "position statement" on affordable housing has not been complied with, then Planning Committee should not approve this application.<br /><br />Philip.Philip Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08216646114377430489noreply@blogger.com