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Social Housing and Planning Gain: Is This an Appropriate Way of Providing Affordable Housing?

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  • Anthony (Tony) D H Crook

    (Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, England)

  • Christine M E Whitehead

    (Department of Economics, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2 2AE, England)

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The current mechanism for providing affordable housing through the planning system in England is based on negotiation within the framework of Planning Policy Guidance Note 3 and Circular 6/98. In this paper the authors examine three groups of questions. First, on the development of the policy, they look at how the need for affordable housing is assessed, how the policy evolved, and how it is currently operated. Second, on the principles and potential outputs of the policy they look at how the approach fits into the principles of betterment taxation, what the results are likely to be ‘on the ground’ in terms of price and output of housing, and whether these are consistent with taxation principles. Third, they examine what the evidence is so far on the impact of planning obligations on affordable housing provision. Finally, the authors develop a typology of likely outcomes, particularly regarding who pays for affordable housing.

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  • Anthony (Tony) D H Crook & Christine M E Whitehead, 2002. "Social Housing and Planning Gain: Is This an Appropriate Way of Providing Affordable Housing?," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 34(7), pages 1259-1279, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:34:y:2002:i:7:p:1259-1279
    DOI: 10.1068/a34135
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    1. Felix SK Agyemang & Nicky Morrison, 2018. "Recognising the barriers to securing affordable housing through the land use planning system in Sub-Saharan Africa: A perspective from Ghana," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(12), pages 2640-2659, September.
    2. Nick Bailey & Maria Gannon & Ade Kearns & Mark Livingston & Alastair H Leyland, 2013. "Living Apart, Losing Sympathy? How Neighbourhood Context Affects Attitudes to Redistribution and to Welfare Recipients," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 45(9), pages 2154-2175, September.
    3. Steven Tiesdell, 2004. "Integrating Affordable Housing within Market-Rate Developments: The Design Dimension," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 31(2), pages 195-212, April.
    4. Rachel Friedman & Gillad Rosen, 2020. "The face of affordable housing in a neoliberal paradigm," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 57(5), pages 959-975, April.
    5. Michael P Johnson, 2007. "Planning Models for the Provision of Affordable Housing," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 34(3), pages 501-523, June.

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