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Housing minister Julie James will accept all but one of the recommendations of the Independent Review of Affordable Housing Supply and has also written to planning authorities across Wales to emphasise that local development plans must support sites made up… Read more »
The Independent Review of Affordable Housing Supply has received a warm welcome from across the Welsh housing sector. The review was launched in Cardiff on Wednesday morning by review chair Lynn Pamment and other members of the panel. As reported… Read more »
Wales can produce more affordable housing with the same level of resources if it tackles ‘considerable weaknesses’ in the current system, says the report of the Independent Review of Affordable Housing Supply published this morning (May 1). The panel chaired… Read more »
The minister tasked the panel with ‘making recommendations on how a sustainable rent policy can help determine long term affordability for tenants and the viability of existing and new housing developments’. Key recommendations Welsh Government should implement a five year… Read more »
The panel was asked to provide ‘advice on whether there should be changes to the standards governing the design and quality of affordable housing’ and to ‘evaluate the impact of moving to deliver zero carbon homes by 2020’. Key recommendations… Read more »
The focus of the review was to ‘recommend changes to increase supply and improve delivery from the scarce resources available’. The gap between housing needs and supply means that it is ‘incumbent on all partners to draw on every available… Read more »
Following the abolition of the Right to Buy and the removal of the borrowing cap, the panel looked at what was needed to ‘support ambitious local authorities to build at place scale’ and how to maximise the use of borrowing… Read more »
Housing minister Rebecca Evans has appointed an independent panel to oversee the work of the review of affordable housing supply to ensure that it is ‘fair, transparent and robust’. In a written statement she said: ’The panel, working under an… Read more »
Housing and regeneration minister Rebecca Evans has announced an independent review of affordable housing supply in Wales. The review will take a year and will examine whether more can be done to increase supply, maximising the resources available, and will… Read more »
The Welsh Government’s latest draft budget features further protection for Supporting People, more money for affordable homes and reform of tax on home sales. The details of the draft budget for 2018/19 and 2019/20 were announced by finance secretary Mark… Read more »
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