Affordable housing

Affordable housing should meet the needs of eligible households including availability at a cost low enough for them to afford.

Affordable housing

Affordable housing is social rented, affordable rented and intermediate housing, provided to eligible households.

In the district the providers of affordable housing include the district council and private registered providers.

We have a housing stock of just under 5,500 homes for social and affordable rent, in addition to over 2000 housing associations (private registered providers) affordable homes available for rent or shared ownership across the district.

Housing Associations

Apply to rent a home

You can apply to rent a home on line through our Easylet scheme.

Affordable Housing Development

The delivery of additional affordable homes across the district is a key priority in our Community Plan.

There is an ongoing requirement to develop a mixed provision of affordable homes to meet the requirements of younger people, families with young children and older people across the district’s urban and rural communities.

We continue to deliver directly new council homes through our own development programme.

In addition we work with registered housing providers and developers to deliver new affordable housing units in the district.

The delivery of affordable housing is set against the council having a robust evidence base of housing need.

The Newark and Sherwood Housing Market and Needs Assessment (2014) indicated that the shortfall of affordable homes over a 5 year period was 221 homes per annum.

Affordable Housing Delivery

Over the past fourteen years, a total of 1,312 additional affordable homes have been provided across the district, through Section 106 planning agreements, 100% affordable housing developments, rural housing exception sites, our own developments and the growth programme.

In 2016 we approved an ambitious 5 year council housing development programme to deliver an indicative 335 additional homes across the district, to meet the housing needs of local residents. Most recently approval has also been given to build a new 40 unit extra care scheme in Boughton.

Between April 2018 and March 2019, 115 additional affordable homes have been built across the district.

Anticipated delivery of new affordable homes

View where new affordable homes are being developed.

‌Anticipated Housing Delivery (PDF File, 130kb)‌

Low cost home ownership

Apart from renting there are also options to purchase homes at an affordable level and these are explained on the Help to Buy Midlands website

In the district there are a number of homes that you can purchase through the Shared Ownership scheme.

Contact us

If you require further information on your affordable housing options and where homes are being developed please contact the Housing Strategy & Development Business Unit on 01636 655462 or email Strategic Housing.