Ministers should drop plans to ditch social rents from the official definition of affordable homes while Britain continues to struggle to build new council housing, Smith Square has urged.
On the eve of its annual conference in Birmingham, the Local Government Association (LGA) urged the Government to retain social rented units within the definition of affordable housing covered by the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
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