Policy information sourced from the Haringey Local Plan: Strategic Policies

SP2: Housing

The Council will aim to provide homes to meet Haringey’s housing needs and to make the full use of Haringey’s capacity for housing by maximising the supply of additional housing to meet and exceed the minimum target of 19,802 homes from 2011-2026 (820 units per annum from 2011-2014 and 1,502 units per annum).

Density and design standards to deliver quality homes

Excellence in design quality and sustainability will be required for all new homes. High quality new residential development in Haringey will be provided by ensuring that new development:

  • Meets the density levels set out in the Density Matrix of the London Plan;
  • Is designed having regard to the housing design standards and space standards set out in the Mayor of London’s Housing SPG (March 2016) and the London Plan and the play space standards set out in the Mayor’s Play and Informal Recreation SPG 2012;
  • Aims to maximise housing for people whose circumstances makes them vulnerable and/or people with specific needs; and
  • 90% of new housing meets Building Regulation requirement M4(2) ‘accessible and adaptable dwellings’ and 10% meeting Building Regulations requirement M4(3) ‘wheelchair user dwelling’, ensuring they are designed to be wheelchair accessible or easily adaptable for wheelchair users. Units should range in size to accommodate various living needs including growing families and live-in carers.

Secure high quality affordable housing

Affordable housing shall be achieved by:

  • Subject to viability, sites capable of delivering 10 units of more will be required to meet a Borough wide affordable housing target of 40%, based on habitable rooms;
  • Delivering an affordable housing tenure split of 60% affordable rent (including social rent) and 40% intermediate housing;
  • The Council will aim to provide homes to meet Haringey’s housing needs and to make the full use of Haringey’s capacity for housing by maximising the supply of additional housing to meet and exceed the minimum target of 19,802 homes from 2011-2026 (820 units per annum from 2011-2014 and 1,502 units per annum from 2015-2026);
  • The preferred affordable housing mix, in terms of unit size and type of dwellings on individual schemes will be determined through negotiation, scheme viability assessments and driven by up to date assessments of local housing need, as set out in the Haringey Housing Strategy;
  • Ensuring no net loss of existing affordable housing floorspace in development; and
  • Ensuring affordable housing units are designed to a high quality and are fully integrated within schemes.

Housing estates renewal and improvement

  • The Council will bring forward a programme to undertake strategic improvements to, or renewal of, Haringey’s housing estates, with priority being accorded to those located within wider regeneration proposals and/or identified as being most in need. An initial list is set out below:
    • Northumberland Park
    • Love Lane
    • Reynardson
    • Turner Avenue
    • Leabank View / Lemsford Close
    • Park Grove and Durnsford Road
    • Tunnel Gardens, including Blake Road
    • Noel Park
    • Broad Water Farm
  • Plan-Monitor-Manage

Haringey’s Local Plan is based on research and evidence available when the document was prepared. However, the Council recognises that circumstances can change, and that the Plan needs to remain flexible and responsive over the plan period. In accordance with the plan-monitor-manage process, in the event that monitoring reveals a risk to either housing delivery or the realisation of the spatial strategy, the Council will assess the reasons for any variance and will consider appropriate interventions, which may include the release of further land for alternative uses, policy revisions or a re-assessment of the planning requirements applicable to specific forms of development.

Such interventions/contingencies will be considered and brought forward by the Council on a strategic planning basis and should not be determined by individual sites/proposals.

Alongside the monitoring of housing delivery, the Council will keep its Infrastructure Delivery Plan, which is intended to be a ‘live’ document, updated to ensure infrastructure delivery matches growth.

For more information please see the Haringey Local Plan: Strategic Policies