NatWest's £250m Section 106 loan fund, matched by Homes England, takes the total available for S106 acquisitions to £500m. It is good news for a market that has badly needed it. Around half of England's affordable housing is delivered through the S106 cross-subsidy model. When registered providers stopped buying, whole sites stalled. Private plots sat behind unsold affordable phases, and housebuilders mothballed schemes that were viable on paper but couldn't clear the afforda

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