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Most new affordable housing is developed through planning agreements with private developers or directly by Housing Association properties for rent; and low cost home ownership.

Worthing Borough Council currently negotiates with developers to provide a mix of affordable housing, including social rent and intermediate housing to meet local needs on all but the smallest sites.  The policy approach is to seek on-site provision of 30% on sites of 15 dwellings or more with financial contributions for sites of 6-14 units.  More details are set out in Policy 10 of the Council's Core Strategy 2011 which can be viewed at www.worthing.gov.uk/goto/corestrategy 

Our targets as recommended in the Strategic Housing Market Assessment are 25% one bedroom, 30% two bedroom, 30% three bedroom and 15% four bedroom properties.  We seek a mix of rented and low cost home ownership units and target 10% wheelchair accessible properties within the affordable housing provided.

Most schemes have to be delivered without any subsidy from the Council or the Homes and Communities Agency and developers will need to build this assumption into their scheme appraisals. In most schemes our preference will be for the affordable housing to be delivered on the same site as the market housing.

Affordable housing is allocated through the Council's Housing Register.  If you have enquiries about Homebuy products (loans for tenants buying their first home), Shared Ownership (where the applicant buys part of the equity in a property and pays rent to a housing association for the remaining portion) please contact Moat www.moat.co.uk or Housing Services.

Schemes currently in development in Worthing are:

  • St Barnabas, Colombia Drive, Durrington - 51 houses and flats for social and intermediate rent
  • Salvington Road, Durrington - 6 houses for rent 

See also Low Cost Home Ownership

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