Main Towns and the Green Belt Market Town:

1. In Atherstone & Mancetter, Polesworth & Dordon and Coleshill an element of affordable housing will be sought in all developments that provide for 15 or more dwellings or involve sites of 0.5 ha or more irrespective of the number of dwellings.

Local Service Centres:

2. In the Local Service Centres of Kingsbury, Hartshill (including Ansley Common), Baddesley Ensor with Grendon, Water Orton, and Arley (Old and New) an element of affordable housing will be sought in all developments that provide for 5 or more dwellings or involve sites of 0.2 ha or more.
3. The element of affordable housing sought in both of these categories of settlement will be expected to amount to 40% of total housing provision on the site concerned, but the precise amount will be determined having regard to site size, suitability, the economics of provision and the need to achieve a successful development.
4. Where it is apparent that the site is a fragmented part of a larger whole, the thresholds and ratios in the foregoing clauses of this policy will be applied as if the proposal is for the larger whole.

Other Settlements with a Development Boundary:

5. New housing in other settlements with a Development Boundary will only be permitted where a need has been identified following systematic analysis involving the local community concerned, landowners and housing providers and will be limited to affordable housing that will remain available as such in perpetuity. Such development will be small in scale, of no more than 10 units.