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Affordable housing

Affordable housing is housing for people who are unable to rent or buy on the open market. This includes social or affordable rented housing, and HomeBuy (shared ownership and other forms of intermediate housing). Find out how to apply for housing.

The provision of affordable homes

The aim of the council’s affordable housing planning policies is to ensure the development of balanced and integrated communities and the delivery of good quality affordable housing for local people in housing need. The Housing Needs Survey 2006 clearly identified a need for additional affordable housing and the council is committed to meeting this need in line with its affordable housing service standards.

Local PlanPolicy H3: Affordable Housing states that "where a need has been identified, affordable housing will be sought as a proportion of residential developments of a substantial scale".

The Affordable Housing Development and Investment Team actively monitors all affordable housing sites in Medway from planning stage through to completion. It works with affordable housing providers to develop new schemes and in 2010/11, 334 units were provided.

Work is currently taking place on 19 affordable housing schemes ranging from small urban infill sites to large regeneration projects. These sites will deliver a mixture of social rented, affordable rented and intermediate housing units helping to create thriving sustainable communities.

There are also more than 100 schemes planned within Medway which will have an element of affordable housing. Some of these schemes, based along Medway’s waterfront, form part of the Medway Regeneration strategy. The planned schemes in Medway include the development of a new settlement of 5000 homes at the Royal School of Military Engineering site in Chattenden.

Future affordable housing schemes

Download Future schemes (pdf 469KB) for information regarding the future developments in Medway. To use this file you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have it on your computer, please use the advice page.

 

For more information contact Housing Strategy and Development by telephone: 01634 306000 or by email: rd_housing_strategy_development@medway.gov.uk

Write to: Housing Strategy and Development, Gun Wharf, Dock Road, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TR

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