Examples of London Affordable Rent in a sentence
Policy H7 of the draft London Plan and the Mayor’s Affordable Housing and Viability SPG sets out a preferred tenure split of at least 30% low cost rent, with London Affordable Rent as the default level of rent, at least 30% intermediate (with London Living Rent and shared ownership being the default tenures), and the remaining 40% to be determined in partnership with the local planning authority and the GLA.
In 2016 the Mayor of London introduced the London Affordable Rent on all new schemes funded with Greater London Authority (GLA) grants.
The proposed development would deliver 77 affordable homes as London Affordable Rent and Intermediate Shared Ownership tenure.
The Mayor of London’s preferred Tenure split is 30% London Affordable Rent, 40% capped affordable rents and 30% intermediate.
Where affordable housing that is replacing social rent housing is not facilitating a right of return, it may be provided as either social rent or London Affordable Rent housing.
The Greater London Authority and the Council do not consider 80% of market rents to be genuinely affordable in most parts of London, and therefore seek schemes to deliver homes let at London Affordable Rent levels, which is substantially below 80% of market rents.
London Affordable Rent should be the default level of rent, and should be assumed by applicants in the absence of alternative guidance from LPAs on the rent levels that they consider to be genuinely affordable.
The provision therefore of London Affordable Rent units is welcomed by officers.
RPs that are developing Affordable Rent under an agreed grant agreement may use their RCGF to provide additional Affordable Rent (which includes London Affordable Rent) property, with GLA approval.
An increasing number of homes are either London Affordable Rent (at similar levels to Social Rent) or London Living Rent (set at a third of median income for the borough).Different tenure types are aimed at different income levels and there are restrictions in place through the grant regime used to build the homes.