Continuous requirement for housing - something should be done regarding properties being bought to rent or as an investment and standing empty.
New builds / developments could require owners to live in the property rather than rent / buy to let - taxable penalty to deter. Whilst so many properties are bought with no intention to be lived in by the owner the
housing shortage will never end, further development using more and more land will continue to be sought.

Policy H/AH
Affordable housing and dwelling mix
As much as legally allowed of the "affordable" housing should be truly affordable, not just use that name.
That clearly means that all "affordable" housing should be at social rents, and not "affordable" rents or discounted purchase.

A policy is also needed to ensure that the number of "affordable" flats/houses is proportionate to the commercial part of the site - not like the "Wing" site, where the ratio of commercial flats to houses is almost the inverse correlation to the "affordable" dwellings.

All "affordable" housing should be council housing, to provide security of tenure, accountability, and efficiency.

Policy H/SS
Residential space standards and accessible homes
Paragraph 1:
The adoption of the Nationally Described Residential Space standard is welcome. The councils should lobby government to make this part of the building control regulations, rather than an optional part of the planning system.

Paragraph 2:
This is a loophole, and these homes should always be subject to the above standard.

Paragraph 5:
This policy is welcome but must urgently be backed with generous minimum private amenity space standards.
We have for a long time been building rabbit hutches with little or no private amenity space, and these are the slums of tomorrow.

Policy H/HD
Housing density
We need to get away from the obsession with higher densities.
We have for a long time permitted far too dense building, which has led to lower internal space and external private amenity space standards, leading to family homes totally unsuitable for bringing up a family (i.e. the "Swifts" development at Fulbourn) and a myriad of "Rabbit hutch" type blocks of flats.
These are the slums of tomorrow, with a built-in encouragement of anti-social behaviour, crime, anxiety and mental ill-health.
We need proper family homes with generous gardens.