Availability of affordable housing in Devon and Cornwall

Relevant Library publications:

• What is affordable housing?
• Rural housing: A reading list
• Second homes and holiday-lets in rural communities (prepared for a debate on 6 January 2022)
• Can access to housing be restricted to local people?
• Calculating housing need in the planning system (England)
• Planning for the Future: planning policy changes in England in 2020 and future reforms
• The growth in short-term lettings (England)

Statistics

• Local authority data: housing supply – for the latest data on the supply of new affordable homes by local authority (interactive)
• Constituency data: house prices – for constituency data on trends in house prices, and how they compare with local earnings (interactive)
• House prices in tourist hotspots increasingly out of reach for young and low paid, Office for National Statistics, September 2021

Local authority documents

• Cornwall Council’s Local Plan up to 2030
• Types of affordable housing – Cornwall Council
• There are eight district authorities in Devon – details of their local plans can be found on their websites. Some have developed, or are developing, joint local plans: East Devon District Council; Exeter City Council; Mid Devon District Council; North Devon District Council and Torridge District Council joint plan; South West Devon and Plymouth joint plan; Teignbridge District Council.