Affordable Housing Guidance - Commuted Sums & Vacant Building Credit

Site size threshold for affordable housing contributions and the application of vacant building credit.

The council has produced a clarification guidance note - May 2019 (PDF 24KB) to set out the council's position on applying City Plan Policy CP20: affordable housing to all types of residential development.

This guidance note is in reference to the:

Calculation of commuted sums for affordable housing

The Brighton & Hove City Plan Part One was adopted 24 March 2016. The City Plan sets out strategic housing policies regarding future housing delivery in the city to 2030 and Policy CP20 Affordable Housing replaces the 2005 Local Plan Policy HO2 for affordable housing. 

Guidance has been produced for the calculation of commuted sums (payment in lieu) in accordance with the sliding scale requirements for smaller development sites as set out in City Plan Part One CP20 Affordable Housing.

Schedule of affordable housing commuted sums payments 2023

Section 106 Developer Contributions Technical Guidance

Schedule of Commuted sum payments - updated in August 2023 for calculating affordable housing contributions

The payments below are effective from 1 September 2023.

Flats

    1 bedroom flat 2 bedroom flat 3 bedroom flat
Zone 1
 £185,500 £260,700  £293,000 
Zone 2
 £162,200  £205,600  £257,200 
Zone 3
 £118,200  £127,200  £162,600 

Houses

    2 bedroom house 3 bedroom house 4 bedroom house
Zone 1
 £265,200  £324,900  £375,500 
Zone 2
 £257,200  £272,900  £297,100 
Zone 3
 £165,700  £217,400  £257,200 

The associated DVS report and value areas can be viewed here: