Affordable Housing Supplementary Planning Document
The previous Affordable Housing Supplementary Planning Document (AH SPD) was adopted by the North Somerset Council in June 2008. Since then, there have been a number of material changes to the policy context it was based on, notably the introduction of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and the adoption of the North Somerset Core Strategy (CS).
The Core Strategy was adopted in April 2012 and superseded the affordable housing policies of the 2007 North Somerset Replacement Local Plan (RLP).
As well as being a key objective of the Core Strategy, the provision of affordable housing is a strategic action of the Housing Strategy 2010-15 and a priority objective of the Sustainable Community Strategy 2008-26.