Deputy Prime Minister written question – answered at on 16 March 2006.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister whether the Government has (a) estimated how much affordable key worker housing will need to be made available in the Thames Gateway to meet the staffing needs of frontline public services and (b) assessed where such housing will be required; and what assessment the Government has made of whether sufficient resources have been identified to provide for that housing.
A target has been set that at least 120,000 homes will be built across the Thames Gateway of which at least 35 per cent. will be affordable for rent or purchase by first time buyers including key workers. This target is set out in Creating Sustainable Communities: delivering the Thames Gateway".
Planning Policy Guidance Note 3: Housing (PPG3) advises that assessments of housing need, including affordable key worker housing and family housing, are matters for local authorities to undertake in the light of their local circumstances. These assessments help authorities to identify where such housing is required as part of preparing their development plan policies.
Key Worker Living has provided funding for 1,105 new homes for key workers in the Thames Gateway from 2004–06 Housing Corporation Approved Development Programme. Future funding levels will be confirmed when the results of the National Affordable Housing Programme are announced in March 2006.
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