The numbers of affordable homes provided in each London borough as a result of a section 106 agreement in each of the last five years are tabled as follows. Figures include both new build and acquisitions.
2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 City of London 0 0 0 0 0 Barking and Dagenham 98 0 135 42 168 Barnet 25 59 74 111 66 Bexley 0 30 4 0 12 Brent 260 228 168 78 11 Bromley 4 188 11 191 138 Camden 22 39 9 128 133 Croydon 37 84 67 121 130 Ealing 66 204 225 132 284 Enfield 72 116 1 66 26 Greenwich 78 116 550 262 336 Hackney 1— 302 1— 1— 182 Hammersmith and Fulham 0 168 381 300 57 Haringey 85 173 1— 284 23 Harrow 37 102 105 78 122 Havering 95 65 32 53 76 Hillingdon 64 86 60 63 58 Hounslow 42 67 160 135 118 Islington 2 156 65 44 405 Kensington and Chelsea 11 59 34 0 66 Kingston upon Thames 25 12 18 153 18 Lambeth 86 147 332 257 224 Lewisham 0 39 0 55 232 Merton 22 58 12 165 37 Newham 6 14 86 8 388 Redbridge 177 194 180 53 323 Richmond upon Thames 42 9 104 167 2 Southwark 10 66 43 36 166 Sutton 26 57 9 135 195 Tower Hamlets 151 106 367 184 449 Waltham Forest 8 50 0 77 120 Wandsworth 39 80 1— 59 102 Westminster 139 62 79 165 186 London 1,847 3,136 3,840 3,676 4,853 1 Data are missing. Notes: 1. Local authority areas do not always sum to their regional totals due to imputed figures which are only included at the regional level. 2. Figures include both new build and acquisitions. 3. Affordable homes include social rent, low cost homeownership and other sub market rental products. 4. Figures include homes funded solely or partially through section 106 agreements. Source: Local authority statistical returns.
Affordable housing is defined in "Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing" published in November last year. The Government adopted this new definition, which includes social rented and intermediate housing, because we wished to ensure that developer contributions were used to help provide genuinely affordable housing for households in need over the longer term. The definition can include homes provided by private sector bodies.
Local planning authorities should plan for the full range of market housing. In particular, they should take account of the need to deliver low-cost market housing as part of the housing mix.
Communities and Local Government is currently engaged in examining the means by which we monitor the impact of policies on cohesion and extremism, including those relating to housing.
The role of housing in contributing to community cohesion is one of several matters being considered by the independent Commission on Integration and Cohesion, which is due to report in June 2007.