Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing

N.B: This guidance is now outdated

Published by Communities and Local Government (CLG) in 2011, Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing (PPS3) underpins the delivery of the Government's strategic housing policy objectives and their goal to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to live in a decent home, which they can afford in a community where they want to live.

This complements, and should be read together with, other relevant statements of national planning and housing policy (in particular PPS1: Delivering Sustainable Development (opens new window) and the forthcoming PPS on Climate Change).

This latest version was issued in June 2011, to provide technical amendments to Annex B: Definitions, to reflect the introduction of Affordable Rent. This replaces Planning Policy Guidance 3: Housing (PPG3) published in March 2000; and earlier editions of PPS3.