Anger as developer bids to remove affordable housing from estate

A developer’s bid to axe all affordable housing from a new estate has been branded "disgraceful" by angry neighbours

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00:00I think it's appalling. It was originally granted permission on the basis that they were going to

00:06provide 30% affordable housing. They called it a significant factor in ensuring that the

00:14application was approved, the planners at DDC, so they need to adhere by it.

00:21Why is affordable housing needed here?

00:23It's needed here because there are so many people who can't afford a mortgage nowadays,

00:29who need to be able to rent property.

00:31I'm absolutely shocked and horrified by the whole thing, actually,

00:34because I feel that it's been done in a really, really

00:39unhelpful way, really, because we haven't received any notification of this at all.

00:44Does Dill need affordable housing?

00:46It definitely needs affordable housing, without any shadow of doubt. What's happening are people

00:51are moving in to the area from other areas, and we just haven't got any housing for our own people,

00:56and yet our countryside is being swallowed up. It really is quite a shocking way that they're

01:03doing all of this.