In Guildford, a buoyant eceonomy intensifies pressure for more housing to be built. As the market comes up agianst policies of planning restraint, however, the cost of exisiting houses is driven up, leaving local families unable to afford them. When the prices fall again, people are vunerable to negative equity and the loss of their homes. Affordable housing is understandably, therefore, top of your list of priorities.

Your priorites for housing:

- Key workers given higher priority than local business needs. Young people, lower income groups and local families also priorities

- Need to balance housing against threat to open spaces

- Warnings of pressure building in North Guildford, overcrowded housing and the strian on the infrastructure

- Need to balance town centre housing against business needs, with preference for brown field sites and affordable hosusing in the centre

- Rural housing need, alongside opposition to 4,000 new homes as proposed by Surrey County Council's draft Structure Plan

- Strenghening the small homes policy, building small units, increased use of Housing Associations and a min 30 per cent affordable housing in all new developments

- More council hosues and sheltered homes and the relaease of finance from the sales of council houses

- Need to keep affordable hosuing genuinely affordable

- Need to ensure open space and play facilities are provided within or close to housing developments

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