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Affordable Housing - Allocating Section 106 Commuted Sums

Meeting: 01/10/2020 - Cabinet (Item 34)

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To consider the interim head of development and regeneration’s report. 

Minutes:

Cabinet considered the report of the interim head of development and regeneration.  This set out the current position with the delivery of affordable housing as part of the Oxfordshire Housing and Growth Deal.  The report also proposed a framework for adoption to enable the evaluation and prioritisation of commuted sums received as part of section 106 agreements as a result of the council granting planning permissions.  The commuted sums were in lieu of the on-site delivery of affordable housing. 

 

The Cabinet member for development and regeneration reported that the intention of the framework was to assist in the development of affordable housing schemes.  All tenure types would be considered.  The intention was to use small and medium sized enterprises for the construction of such developments, and to build low environmental impact homes. 

 

Cabinet supported the proposal and urged officers to progress this. 

 

RESOLVED: to

 

(a)      note the current position regarding the affordable housing delivery programme; and

 

(b)      approve the framework (attached at appendix one to the interim head of development and regeneration’s report to Cabinet on 1 October 2020) to evaluate and prioritise the spend of commuted sums (S106 monies) received by the council in lieu of the on-site delivery of affordable housing, in order to enable the provision of further affordable homes. 


 

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