Legal & Professional

Planning inspectors keep housebuilders guessing on small-site exemptions

By 2017-02-16T09:00:00

Housing development

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In theory, housebuilders developing smaller sites don’t have to make affordable housing contributions. There is, after all, a written ministerial statement (WMS) saying as much, and local plans are supposed to fall in line with national policy.

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