- may have to be amended almost as soon as it is adopted to allow more affordable homes to be built, The Press has learned.
The draft plan, put together under York's previous Lib Dem/ Green administration and set to be the city's first formal local plan for 70 years if approved as expected by government inspectors later this year, makes provision for just 2,360 affordable homes to be built in York between now and 2033.
But that’s way below the 9,396 new affordable homes that are likely to be needed in that timescale, City of York Council has admitted.
Even taking into account affordable homes already built in the last couple of years, just 3,265 new affordable homes would be completed in the city by 2033 – 6,000 short of the number the city council says ‘evidence suggests’ are likely to be needed.
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