Housing Delivery. PURPOSE To provide guidance on the provision of housing to meet local and affordable housing needs and measures to manage the provision of housing STATUS Supplementary Planning Document CONTENT • Types of appropriate housing • Means of securing affordable housing needs • Measures for managing housing supply GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE All District excluding the Peak District National Park RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER LOCAL DEVELOPMENT DOCUMENTS (CONFORMITY) Will conform with Core Strategy Policies SS2, H1, H2 and H3. Linked to saved Local Plan policies H14 and H15.
Housing Delivery. Introduction South Africa's housing backlog has no prospect of alleviation within a few years at the current rate of delivery or within the existing policy framework. Housing delivery is far below RDP targets. This briefing paper suggests additional and adjusted housing policy instruments to accelerate the provision of housing substantially. These proposals are not utopian and are made in the full recognition that they would lead to housing of standards that would be upgraded when resources permit. What is proposed would have the effect of bringing about immediate and substantial improvements over the status quo. Simultaneously it would be easier, cheaper and more expeditious to bring about subsequent improvements as private and government resources become available. Site without service According to the Land Green Paper the government, in all its forms, owns a huge portion of South Africa's land. Land held by central government, parastatals and other quasi-government organisations amounts to about one third of all land. Much or most of this land is defined by the Green Paper as "superfluous". Superfluous government land is held by various organs of state, notably, the Department of Land Affairs, the Department of Transport and the Department of Works as well as Transnet, municipalities, provincial governments, defence force. Most other organs of state own readily disposable land including forestry, coastal land, wilderness areas, land held by Most other organisations of state This paper proposes, firstly, the utilisation of superfluous state land for a dramatic and immediate act of empowerment by providing every homeless household with a plot. Under this "one-household-one-plot" policy there would be no need to wait for social and physical infrastructure, services, housing to be financed or built, for costly and time-consuming surveying and deeds registry formalities, or for conflict-provoking land redistribution and land title dispute resolution. Under this proposal land would be transferred into full and immediate ownership under secure and unambiguous title that can be freely sold mortgaged or let. The prevailing policy is for land and housing to be made available only after infrastructure, services and/or basic housing can be provided. What is proposed instead is a site-without-service approach on the basis that people are better off with undeveloped securely held land which they can develop, than with no land or housing at all. The short-term effect ...
Housing Delivery. SYMCA strategic objective - to identify a robust pipeline of new housing growth investment opportunities to deliver more affordable new homes and specialist homes. To support community renewal and new housing provision opportunities, the two parties agree to engage stakeholders where there are areas of common interest, including but not limited to local authorities, registered housing providers, developers and financial institutions. Consideration will be given to both sole housing schemes or mixed-use schemes with a sizeable housing element, particularly where high environmental standards are being applied to support net zero ambitions and help address the cost of living crisis. This area of cooperation will also look beyond housing provision to consider the existing housing stock and sustainable, place-based infrastructure solutions and investments to support the wider regeneration and growth of places.
