Affordable Housing

Two years ago the CGCA joined forces with the Charlotte Street Association and served a writ on Camden Council which, in effect, stopped their plan for the borough plan (the UDP) being adopted until the Council undertook to identify sites within the borough for affordable housing. At the eleventh hour a deal was struck: we withdrew our legal action, and Camden undertook to identify housing sites south of the Euston Road, for future affordable housing development and to carry out at least 6-8 detailed planning briefs for these housing sites by June 2001.

The sites would then be included in the first revision of Camden's UDP timed for the Summer 2002.

A year and a half later Camden have prepared 3 planning briefs, and only one in Covent Garden (the LEB substation in Shorts Gardens/Betterton Street). They have not included any new housing sites in the UDP. This summer a public enquiry will take place where Camden's new housing planning policies will be examined. In the past year the CGCA has written detailed comments to Camden, sent numerous deputations to the relevant committees and will be appearing at this summer's public enquiry.

The CGCA has two main disputes with Camden. The first concerns the Council's failure to stand by its undertakings; the second is that their proposed changes designed they claim to increase affordable housing in the borough are so timid, and littered with numerous caveats and let out clauses, that there is a distinct possibility that less affordable housing will result rather than more.

Jim Monahan

 

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