1. Housing, tenure and the new builders
Richard Harwood QC

2. Starter Homes
Moving from proposed statutory requirement to policy expectation
Discount tapered for 15 years
Promoting starter homes on vacant employment land and Green Belt

3. Starter Homes in practice
Merryfield Park, Sopley in New Forest District Council
August 2016 obligation, based on consultation proposals
Newbury Building Society offering mortgages

4. Build to Rent Affordable housing and tenure The issue of shared equity
White Paper proposing changes to encourage private affordable rent in such schemes

5. Smaller sites and smaller developers
Improving delivery rates and reducing risk requires smaller sites and developers
Local and neighbourhood plan allocations
Reduce costs of preparing planning applications

6. Local Plan preparation
Local Plans Expert Group report lpeg.org
White Paper – simplify Objectively Assessed Need calculation
Joint planning
Delivery testing
Ability to fix housing land supply figure

7. Environment matters
Local Plan housing requirements to make decisions on what can be provided
Striking an environmental balance
New Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations
The future of the Habitats regime

8. Local authorities as developers
Use of companies for non-Housing Authority developments
Private build to rent
Right to buy for affordable housing tenants only

9. Local authorities and planning permission
Local planning authorities may obtain planning permission on their land
If permission is for development by that authority (with or without a partner), it does not run with the land in two tier authorities
White Paper proposes change
Value, but LPAs can already obtain a planning permission which is not for their own development and transfer land with that consent

10. Planning obligations on local authority land
Issue whether a local authority can enter into a planning obligation as landowner which is enforceable by itself as local planning authority
Doubts whether this can be done
Less transparent work-arounds in sale contracts
Solution: amend s106 giving specific power to enter into such obligations

11. Housing, tenure and the new builders
Richard Harwood QC