Aylesbury Vale Area Affordable Housing Supplementary Planning Document

8. Design – layout of the site

53. The location of affordable housing in a scheme will include consideration of how the provision relates to other phases of the same development (where appropriate). This will include if there is a degree of separation provided by roads, open space or landscape feature, and the grouping of affordable housing in nearby previously developed schemes (as appropriate).

54. The affordable housing should be fully integrated into the overall scheme layout with clusters proportionate to the size of each site or phase and, in any event, should not exceed fifteen dwellings (eighteen if including flats). A road or garden boundary is not considered adequate to separate clusters.

55. In the case of flats this means that within the same block of flats a group of affordable units should not be either on the same floor or immediately above or below another group of affordable units. For smaller schemes of up to 20 homes, the maximum size of such clusters would normally be groups of 4 dwellings.