In August, the new Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced that he would be employing an expert group to scrutinise affordable housing viability assessments, the documents property developers have to submit to councils when they want to drop affordable housing obligations. We have reported on a number of occasions on how viability assessments are used […]
Can Khan’s new viability experts stop the developers devilish games?
Yesterday the new Mayor, Sadiq Khan, made what he considered to be a major announcement to ‘speed up home building’. Part of the announcement is a new team of viability experts who will scrutinise viability assessments. Building greater expertise on viability assessments is essential to holding developers to account, but is this new team all it […]
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