Our policies, plans and strategies - Affordable Housing Viability Assessment

The overall aim and purpose of the study, as set out in the brief, was to:

• Advise on the most ambitious yet achievable and viable target(s) and threshold(s) for affordable housing which fully reflect the availability of a range of finance towards affordable housing and reflects priority infrastructure needs, in line with PPS3
• Provide a model for each authority with which local authority partners can assess any case for viability submitted by developers claiming that affordable housing target(s) render their scheme proposals unviable
• Advise on a simple to use and to up-to-date method of calculating how much commuted sum should be sought in lieu of on-site affordable housing provision

Affordable Housing Viability Assessment (PDF, 1.5MB)