​Yorkshire housing providers consider setting minimum quality standard for section 106 homes

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Nick Atkin says housing associations fear having to retrofit new homes if they are not built to a high enough quality by housebuilders

A group of housing providers in Yorkshire is in discussions about setting a minimum quality standard for homes bought from housebuilders through section 106 deals.

Nick Atkin, chief executive of Yorkshire Housing, speaking at the Housing Community Summit in Liverpool yesterday, said providers in the county are concerned that they have been “bringing into the affordable housing stock properties that we are going to have to go back and retrofit within 10 years”

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