The Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) has played down fears that plans to allow developers to renegotiate section 106 agreements on schemes deemed unviable in the current market will be at the expense of affordable housing.
The department wants to get work on stalled schemes going again and is convinced that much of it is being held up because of “economically unrealistic agreements” negotiated between councils and developers in the boom times.
As such, it has ann...
