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The housebuilders and affordable housing

This chapter investigates the long running battle between communities and developers/landowners over so called planning obligations particularly to build affordable housing. It explores the huge windfall gains landowners and developers make from obtaining planning consents compared with the tiny fraction of land value that is returned to the community in the form of planning obligations. The chapter also looks at how developers exploit loopholes in legislation and avoid policies of tenure mix that reduce the value of the homes they build. The chapter argues that the planning obligations system has failed.