Homes policies
83. As already expressed above, CPRE’s concern is that this draft Plan includes house-building far in excess of
necessary or statutory requirements. It appears to be based on a growth agenda which in turn is based
upon encouraging unsustainable inward migration to the area.
84. CPRE believes that the greatest housing need is for affordable homes and would like to see Policy H/AH:
Affordable housing, strengthened and enforced as far as possible. We would like to see increasing
numbers of small sites developed with affordable housing included.
85. CPRE has some concerns about the use of Policy H/ES: Exception sites for affordable housing, because in
one district we know of, the exception site rules have been used to approve major, market led,
developments posing as community-led exception sites, when they contain the minimum requirement of
affordable housing. We trust that South Cambridgeshire will not countenance this deceptive approach
through the application of this policy.