Written statement to Parliament

Affordable rent

Further to the Written Statement of 14 February from my Rt Hon Friend, »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp Minister for Housing and Local Government, I am today announcingâ€�

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»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp Rt Hon Grant Shapps

Further to the of 14 February from my Rt Hon Friend, »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp Minister for Housing and Local Government, I am today announcing the publication of the technical revision to Annex B of Planning Policy Statement 3, to make clear that Affordable Rent falls within the definition of affordable housing for planning purposes. Also published today are a document summarising the responses that were received to the consultation paper, Planning Policy Statement 3: Planning for Housing Technical change to Annex B, Affordable Housing Definition, published on 14 February 2011; and an Affordable Rent Impact Assessment.

Planning Policy Statement 3, with a revised Annex B can be found at , the summary of responses is at , and the Affordable Rent Impact Assessment at
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Updates to this page

Published 9 June 2011