Housing ''isn''t affordable in south-east''

The government''s plans to make housing in the south-east more affordable are failing because they don''t go far enough, according to housing experts.

According to statistics from Halifax, a mortgage provider, the population of this area has gone up by six per cent in the last decade and in the same amount of time house prices have tripled.

Warren Finney, south-east regional manager for the National Housing Federation, said: "Part of the south-east England regional assembly plan, which hasn''t been formally agreed yet, sets out what they want to do over the next 20 years.

"The overall housing numbers are 28,900 and that''s for all housing - 35 per cent of that is planned to be affordable housing, including low-cost home ownership and rented property."

He insists that there still won''t be enough affordable housing for all the UK''s internal migrants who want to move to the region.

Mr Finney added that it is larger houses that need to be built rather than lots of flats or smaller homes.


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