Policy information sourced from the Kensington and Chelsea Local Plan
CH4: Specific Housing Needs
The Council will ensure that new housing development meets the housing needs of a range of specific groups.
To deliver this the Council will:
- support the provision for older people’s housing including new extra care and sheltered housing to meet identified local needs;
- resist the loss of existing older people’s housing unless the loss is to improve substandard accommodation or increase the existing provision on the site;
- protect houses in multiple occupation except where a proposal concerns conversion into self contained studio flats, and require any such proposal to be subject to a s106 agreement to ensure the flats remain as studios in perpetuity;
- support self build by providing serviced plots subject to availability;
- support build to rent schemes in particular those that include intermediate rent or affordable private rent as part of the affordable housing component;
- require student housing to not compromise the provision of general housing;
- require purpose built student accommodation to have an undertaking with a specified academic institution(s) that specifies that the accommodation will be occupied by students of that institution(s);
- resist the loss of supported housing which meets identified community needs;
- resist the loss of residential hostels except where the site will be utilised as a different form of affordable housing.
For more information please see the Kensington and Chelsea Local Plan