Jasmine Ratta
Jasmine Ratta is an Associate at Trowers & Hamlins, having trained in the firm's London and Dubai offices and qualified into the Planning & Environmental team of the firm in October 2017. Jasmine advises both private and public sector clients. She specialises in planning, highways and compulsory purchase law and has varied experience advising local authorities, housing associations, government bodies and private developers on complex, well publicised matters, both contentious and non-contentious.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2017
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) (2010)
- (LPC) (2014 – 2015)
- (GDL) (2012 – 2013)
Education
- Kaplan Law School (2012 – 2015)
- Sussex University (2007 – 2010)
1 Contributions by Jasmine Ratta
PRACTICE NOTES
Affordable housing grant and subsidy in England: Homes England/GLA programmes, Subsidy Control Act 2022, HRA 2008 protections, planning and section 106
What is grant funding/public subsidy for affordable housing?
Affordable housing grants have been around for many years, but a structured capital funding framework designed to underpin affordable housing delivery only truly took hold from the 1980s with the coming into force of the Housing Act 1988 (HA 1988). Initially confined to housing associations, grant support described as ‘social housing assistance’ is now open to a broader category of beneficiaries (see Who can apply for grant funding/public subsidy for affordable housing? below), and responsibility for the regime’s operation is split between the Homes and Communities Agency (trading as Homes England) and the Greater London Authority (the GLA). Although other public bodies (such as local authorities and combined authorities) may exercise grant-awarding functions, this Practice Note concentrates on the grant regime administered by Homes England and the GLA and on the provision of social housing assistance. In this context, any reference to grants in this Practice Note is a reference to social housing assistance made available through the government-sponsored Affordable Homes Programme (see the paragraph beginning ‘The main funders in England’ below)...
Planning
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