Policy information sourced from Tonbridge and Malling Core Strategy

CP17 Affordable Housing

In the Urban Areas, as defined in Core Policy CP11, affordable housing provision will be sought on all sites of 15 dwellings or above, or 0.5ha or above, at a level of 40% of the number of dwellings in any scheme.

In the rural area, affordable housing provision will be sought on all sites of 5 dwellings or above, or 0.16ha or above, at a level of 40% of the number of dwellings in any scheme.

Unless circumstances dictate otherwise, 70% of the affordable dwellings provided on each site should be social rented housing with the remainder being intermediate housing (as defined in para 6.3.27).

In exceptional circumstances, it may be agreed that affordable housing may be provided on another site or by means of a commuted sum.

If a site allocated or identified in the LDF for housing is sub-divided so as to create two or more separate development schemes one or more of which falls below the relevant threshold, the Council will seek an appropriate level of affordable housing to reflect the provision that would have been achieved on the site as a whole had it come forward as a single scheme for the allocated or identified site.

For more information please see the Core Strategy