Affordable Housing Policy

Providing affordable homes in Edinburgh

If you are a developer, architect or agent, our Affordable Housing Policy in Edinburgh helps ensure that new housing developments in the city include a number of affordable homes.

If you want to know how the Affordable Housing Policy works within the planning system in Edinburgh, please read our guidence for developers. Further information on planning guidence can be found in the planning directory.

We are keen to engage with developers and supports the following initiatives:

• discussing the use of affordable tenures and help provide developers with wider options and improve the potential viability of sites
• exploring ways in which private investment may be attracted into affordable housing
• working with developers to explore opportunities for increasing the amount of affordable housing in the City

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact us.