Developers money for affordable housing subsidises Council tax.
February 15, 2007 11:05 PM
Liberal Democrat Cllr Steve Kulka has been an advocate of forcing housing developers to build affordable housing on an application site when the application requires it.
Sometimes the council allows them to opt out of building affordable housing on the site and instead pay large amounts of section 106 money into a pot to build these affordable houses, supposedly in a more appropriate neighbourhood.
In the mean time, these not insubstantial sums sit in a council, high interest account, waiting for the opportunity.
When the opportunity comes, it's the original Section 106 amount that will be spent.
The interest goes toward keeping Council tax down.
The Reigate & Banstead residents that need affordable housing include 'key workers' such as teachers, nurses and emergency service workers.
Doesn't it seem unfair that the key workers that we depend on, who are typically on the lowest wages, appear to be subsidising the council tax bill for the rest of us.
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