Policy information sourced from the Reigate & Banstead Local Plan - Development Management Plan

DES4: Housing mix

  1. All new residential developments should provide homes of an appropriate type, size and tenure to meet the needs of the local community. The proposed housing mix must:
    1. meet the requirements set out (2) below;
    2. respond appropriately to any other relevant evidence of local need and demand for different sizes and types of housing, including the Council’s most recent Strategic Housing Market Assessment (or similar); and
    3. address any site specific requirements contained in this or other relevant local plan documents, including the requirements of the Affordable Housing SPD.
  2. Provision of market housing should meet the following requirements unless it can be demonstrated that it is not financially viable or technically feasible to do so, that there would be no need or market demand for a particular size of homes (as may be the case for certain types of specialist accommodation), or that doing so would have an adverse impact on the character of the surrounding area.

Borough-wide (except for town and local centres)

  • On sites of up to 20 homes, at least 20% of market housing should be provided as smaller (one and two bedroom) homes.
  • On sites of 20 homes or more, at least 30% of market housing should be provided as smaller (one and two bedroom) homes and at least 30% of market housing must be larger (three+ bedroom) homes.

Within town and local centres

  • On all schemes, at least half of all homes provided should be one and two bedroom homes.
  • On schemes of 20 or more homes, at least 10% of homes must have three or more bedrooms.

For more information please see the Reigate & Banstead Development Management Plan