Issue - meetings

The report of the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health provided details of the Homes and Communities Agency’s (HCA) recent announcement of capital grant allocations through the Affordable Homes Programme 2015-18 to schemes to be delivered within Tonbridge and Malling.  The Board was pleased to note that the HCA had allocated over £7 million of capital grant funding to the Council’s Registered Provider Partners to construct new affordable homes within the borough.  Members noted that the Leader of the Council and the Cabinet Member for Housing would be writing to the local Members of Parliament to question whether rental levels set at 80 per cent of market value were “affordable” and the detrimental effect this had on working families.