Affordable Housing: Enabling Territorial Authorities Bill 189-2 (2007), Government Bill

  • enacted
5 Purposes
  • The purposes of this Act are to—

    • (a) enable a territorial authority, in consultation with its community, to require persons doing developments to facilitate the provision of affordable housing—

      • (i) for the purpose of meeting a need for it that the authority has identified by doing a housing needs assessment:

      • (ii) in a manner that takes account of the desirability of the community having a variety of housing sizes, tenures, and costs:

    • (b) void covenants whose principal purpose is to stop that have, as one of their purposes, stopping the provision of affordable housing or social housing.