Policy information sourced from the Haringey Development Management Plan

DM11: Housing Mix

  • Proposals for new residential development, including mixed-use schemes comprising residential accommodation, should provide a mix of housing having regard to:
    • Individual site circumstances, including location, character of its surrounds, site constraints and scale of development proposed;
    • The target mix for affordable housing, in accordance with Policies SP2 and DM13, and the Council’s Housing Strategy;
    • The priority afforded to the delivery of affordable family housing; and
    • The need to achieve inclusive and mixed sustainable communities.
  • The Council will apply the London Plan policies on residential density in accordance with Policy SP2 but expects the optimum housing potential of a site to be determined through a rigorous design-led approach (see Policies DM1 and DM2), also having regard to the findings of the Haringey Urban Characterisation Study (2015).
  • The Council will not support proposals which result in an overconcentration of 1 or 2 bed units unless they are part of larger developments or located within neighbourhoods where such provision would deliver a better mix of unit sizes which include larger and family sized units.
  • Proposals for comprehensive renewal of a social housing estate will be required to re-provide the existing affordable housing on an equivalent habitable room basis, tailored to better meet current housing needs and the achievement of more inclusive and mixed communities.

For more information please see the Haringey Development Management Plan