Policy information sourced from City of London Local Plan

CS21: Housing

To protect existing housing and amenity and provide additional housing in the City, concentrated in or near identified residential areas, as shown in Figure X, to meet the City’s needs, securing suitable, accessible and affordable housing and supported housing, by:

  1. Exceeding the London Plan’s minimum annual requirement of 110 additional residential units in the City up to 2026:
    • guiding new housing development to and near identified residential areas;
    • protecting existing housing;
    • refusing new housing where it would prejudice the primary business function of the City or be contrary to Policy DM 1.1;
    • exceptionally, allowing the loss of isolated residential units where there is a poor level of amenity.
  2. Ensuring sufficient affordable housing is provided to meet the City’s housing need and contributing to London’s wider housing needs by requiring residential developments with the potential for 10 or more units to:
    • provide 30% affordable housing on-site;
    • exceptionally, provide 60% of affordable housing off-site, or equivalent cashin-lieu, if a viability study demonstrates to the City Corporation’s satisfaction that on-site provision is not viable. These targets should be applied flexibly, taking account of individual site and scheme viability;
    • provide 60% of affordable units as social/affordable rented housing and 40% as intermediate housing, including key worker housing.
  3. Providing affordable housing off-site, including the purchase of existing residential properties on the open market to meet identified housing needs, such as large units for families.
  4. Requiring all new and, where possible, converted residential units to meet Lifetime Homes standards and 10% of all new units to meet Wheelchair Housing Standards (or be easily adaptable to meet these standards).

For more information please see the Local Plan