FOI Request - Payments in lieu of onsite Affordable Housing

Request 101003624269

1. Please provide details as to how much money your local authority received in commuted sums in the year 2023/24 where a payment was made by developers in lieu of onsite affordable housing.

2. Separately, can you also outline what this sum was for each of the following years: 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23.

3. Can you also provide details as to what your LA policy is on the use of commuted sums gathered.

Response 10-09-2024

1.&2.

2023/24      £109,886.87
2022/23      £217,522.96
2021/22      £288,867.47
2020/21      £170,912.72
2019/20         £2,500.00

3. The Council's approach to the use of commuted payments is set out in the Strategic Housing Investment Plan and is therefore exempt under section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, information otherwise accessible. For ease of reference please find a link to the web page here: http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_95565.html